Sir Thomas Tipping (baptized 29 April 1653 – 1 July 1718) was a late 17th-century English

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and Member of Parliament.

Family

Tipping was the second son, but tenth child, of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir White Beconshaw of Moyles Court at Ellingham, Hampshire. Thomas Senior was the nephew of the

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writer, William 'Eternity' Tipping. Tipping Junior's wife, Anne Cheke, the daughter of Thomas Cheke and Hon. Letitia Russell, sister of the leading Whig statesman

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, had inherited

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in 1659. The Dame Tipping school in Havering-atte-Bower was founded in 1724 and endowed from her death in 1728 by a legacy from her will. The couple inherited Wheatfield Park in 1693. They had two daughters – Letitia wife of

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and Catherine wife of Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer – and a son,

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Biography

Tipping entered

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in 1669, and

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where he studied law in 1672. Tipping became a notorious whig and was elected a Member of Parliament for

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(1685) and then Wallingford (1689, 1695 and 1698). He was known for promoting a proviso to the bill for preserving James II's person; it would allow clergymen to speak out against

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. Later, however, he became infamous for having contrived to marry his ward to a

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of his acquaintance. He fled to the

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for a while. He was listed as being opposed to the King in 1688 and joined William III upon his landing in England. Tipping then became an outspoken opponent of

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who had condemned to death, his maternal aunt Dame Alice Lisle. He did not seek re-election to Parliament in 1701 and in May 1713 he and his brother were reported to have "turned

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". Besides his political activities, Tipping was also a military officer as Lieutenant-Colonel in Lord Mordaunt's

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between 1688 and 1691. He was made a baronet in 1698. In February 1704, he was given permission by the

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"to sell the Manor of Ickford, in the County of Bucks, for the Payment of a Debt charged thereon". He died in debt, in prison, in

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on 1 July 1718, aged 65.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tipping, Thomas 1st 1653 births 1718 deaths Nobility from Oxfordshire People from the London Borough of Havering Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700

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