Thomas Tipping 1653-1718
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Sir Thomas TIPPING, 1st baronet 1653-1718
Biographical Note
Son of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire. Matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford 1669, but did not graduate; admitted at Lincolns Inn 1672. MP for Oxfordshire 1685, for Wallingford 1689-98; he was created a baronet in 1698.He was a JP for Oxfordshire, and held other local administrative offices. He got into financial difficulties towards the end of his life, and died in a debtors' prison.
Books
Tipping used an engraved armorial bookplate, dated 1698, and probably commissioned around the time he was given his baronetcy (Franks *158). The extent and disposition of his library are not known.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.