William Tipping (1599–1649) was an early 17th-century

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religious writer.

Life

William Tipping was the fourth son of Sir George Tipping (1560–1627) of

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by his wife, Dorothy (1564–1637), daughter of Sir John Borlase of

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. He was the uncle of Sir Thomas Tipping the Elder. Tipping attended

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and entered

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but did not become a lawyer. He returned to the Manor of

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to pursue a scholarly life. He married, about 1627, to Ursula, daughter of Sir Edward Brett of

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, and together they had two sons and two daughters. Tipping died in

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, Oxfordshire on 2 February 1649 and is buried in the church there.

Works

In 1633 Tipping published ''A Discourse of Eternitie'' which earned him the nickname of Eternity Tipping. He subsequently appeared before the court of high commission several times on charges of

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practice. ''A Return of Thankfulness'' (1640) and the

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''Father's Counsell'' (1643) followed. Then ''The Preachers Plea'' (1646) and ''The Remarkable Life and Death of the Lady Apollina Hall'' (1647).

US descendants?

It is often erroneously stated that two of Tipping's children, William and Dorothy, emigrated to Talbot County, Maryland in 1664. However, William Tipping Junior lived all his life in

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. He married and had a family of six children in

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, including Rev Dr Ichabod Tipping, the Vicar of

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. He died in Smithfield in February 1709.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tipping, William Eternity Writers from Oxfordshire English Christian theologians Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Roundheads 1649 deaths 1599 births