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| nationality = {{Flag|Belgium}}<br />
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| played_for = [[Brussels Royal IHSC|Brussels IHC]]<br />
| birth_date = September 29, 1910<br />
| birth_place = Gent, Belgium<br />
| death_date = February 14, 1989<br />
| death_place = Elsene, Belgium<br />
| career_start = 1933<br />
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'''Count Philippe Auguste Hubert Marie Ghislain Lippens''' (September 29, 1910 - February 14, 1989) was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] hockey player. He played four games for the [[Belgian National Team]] at the [[1935 World Ice Hockey Championships|1935 World Championship]]. Lippens played club hockey for [[Brussels Royal IHSC|Brussels IHC]].<br />
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He came from a very wealthy and influential. His grandfather, Count Maurice Lippens, served as the Governor of Belgian Congo. <br />
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Philippe was a Captain in the Belgian Air Force. While on mission for the United Nations to Palestine to prepare the independence of the future Palestinian and Israeli states, he participated in the discovery of the manuscripts of the Dead Sea in February 1949.<br />
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He was the third person to enter the Qumran Cave. Commissioned by the University of Louvain (Belgium), he participated in an expedition to excavate the site in 1953. Meanwhile, in 1951, he took part in an expedition of archaeological excavations in Central Arabia. <br />
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The Lippens family are to this day one of Belgium's more notable society families with primary residences in the wealthy sea-side town of Knokke Heist, but also extend as far as Botswana and Australia where Olivier and Paul Lippens acquired the country's 3rd largest cane miller, sugar refinery and cane crops, Bundaberg Rum.<br />
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