relations death_place death_date children birth_place nationality title parents birth_date known_for spouse article_title name occupation alma_mater
earl of mulgrave carlyle square , chelsea , london , england 24 june 1923 edmund ramsay july & ndash ; august , 1867 oaklands , clonmel , tipperary , ireland british colonel pownoll phipps ann charlotte smith 10 april 1838 '' the rise of the marshals of napoleon i '' -lrb- the 1926 & ndash ; 1939 -rrb- armies of the first french republic and anne bampfylde ramsay weston phipps
 ramsay weston phipps army officer , military historian royal military academy at woolwich
ramsay weston phipps

ramsay weston phipps -lrb- 10 april 1838 -- 24 june 1923 -rrb- was an irish-born military historian and officer in queen victoria 's royal artillery .
the son of pownoll phipps , an officer of the british east india company 's army , he was descended from the early settlers of the west indies ; many generations had served in the british , and the english military .
phipps served in the crimean war , had a stint of duty at malta , and helped to repress the fenian uprising in canada in 1866 .
phipps is known for his study of `` the armies of the first french republic and the rise of the marshals of napoleon i '' , a five volume set published posthumously from 1926 -- 1939 by oxford university press .
he also edited l.a. fauvelet de bourrienne 's `` memoirs of napoleon bonaparte '' , a three volume work published in 1885 and madame campan 's `` the private life of marie antoinette , queen of france and navarre ; with sketches and anecdotes of the courts of louis xvi , '' published in 1889 .
