Sir Thomas Tipping (1614–1 March 1693) was a prominent Parliamentarian during the

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Family

Sir Thomas was the eldest son of John Tipping of

Wheatfield, Oxfordshire Wheatfield is a civil parish and deserted medieval village about south of Thame in Oxfordshire. Wheatfield's toponym is derived from the Old English for "white field", referring to the ripe crops that the Anglo-Saxons grew on its fertile land ...

and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir

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of Doddershall in

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. He was baptised in Wheatfield parish church on 10 December 1615, but his father died when he was only four years old. In 1627, Tipping inherited the Wheatfield estate upon the death of his grandfather, Sir George Tipping. Four years later, he matriculated from

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at the age fifteen. He married, in 1637, Elizabeth (1620–1698) youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir White Beconshaw of Moyles Court at

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, by whom he had five sons and eleven daughters, only eight of whom survived him.

Career

From 1647, Tipping served on various local Oxfordshire commissions. Although sometimes referred to as a

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who walked a tightrope during the Civil War, Tipping, in fact, appears to have been something of a Parliamentarian like his more outspoken uncle, the

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and Parliamentarian writer, William 'Eternity' Tipping. Thomas was brother-in-law of the

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, Sir

John Lisle Sir John Lisle (1610 – 11 August 1664) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides o ...

, and a friend of the

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, Sir

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, whose visits to Wheatfield are recorded in his diary. However, upon the

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, he embraced reconciliation and Charles II created him a

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on 15 June 1660. To commemorate this event portraits were painted of Sir Thomas and Lady Tipping by Gilbert Soest. Both, for many years, hung in

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in Hampshire, home of their descendants, the Cope family. The former is now in the

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. The whereabouts of the latter is unknown. Sir Thomas died on 1 March 1693, aged 78, and was buried at Wheatfield. He was succeeded in his estates by his second son,

Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Tipping (baptized 29 April 1653 – 1 July 1718) was a late 17th-century English baronet and Member of Parliament. Family Tipping was the second son, but tenth child, of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire by his wife, Eliz ...

Sources

External links

Tate Collection: Portrait of a Man with a Dog, probably Sir Thomas Tipping
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