Phipps, Robert, 69 Leadenhall St, London, upholder (1723–75). Son of Robert Phipps, freeman and ‘Plaisterer’ of London. App. to Samuel How, 4 March 1723 and free of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude, 7 July 1731. Took as apps George Miller, 1747–54; Richard Butterfield, 1752–60; John Austin, 1762–73; William Gramlick, 1767–74; and Anthony Batger, free 1775. Master of the Upholders’ Co. in 1759 and by this year already at the Leadenhall St address. His son Joshua was free of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 18 July 1765, and by 1767 the business was trading as Robert Phipps & Son. They advertised for business in the Cambridge Chronicle, 19 January 1771. From 1773 traded as Phipps & Shepherd. In 1764–65 Robert Phipps insured a property in Broad St, St George's, and in 1767 properties in Holborn and Dyers Ct. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; Hand in Hand MS vol. 102, p. 159; vol. 106, p. 249]