William Tipping was an early 17th century English

English people

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 religious writer.

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

Wheatfield, Oxfordshire

Wheatfield is a civil parish and deserted medieval village about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.All that remains today is the crenellated Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew, former rectory and the old stables. Wheatfield Park was the home of the Tipping family from the 16th century...

 Park, Oxfordshire

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

Little Marlow

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, Buckinghamshire

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. He was the uncle of Sir Thomas Tipping

Thomas Tipping (knight)

Sir Thomas Tipping was a prominent Parliamentarian during the English Civil War.-Family:Sir Thomas was the eldest son of John Tipping of Wheatfield Park in Oxfordshire and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Christopher Pigott of Doddershall in Buckinghamshire. He was baptised in Wheatfield Church on...

 the Elder. Tipping attended Queen's College, Oxford and entered Lincoln's Inn

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 but did not become a lawyer. He returned to Draycot Manor in Oxfordshire to pursue a scholarly life. He married, about 1627, to Ursula, daughter of Sir Edward Brett of Edmonton

Edmonton, London

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, Middlesex

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, and together they had two sons and two daughters. In 1633, he 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 puritan

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

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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). He died in Waterstock

Waterstock

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

US descendants?

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

London

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. He married and had a family of six children in Westminster

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, including Rev Dr Ichabod Tipping, the Vicar of Camberwell

Camberwell

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. He died in Smithfield

Smithfield, London

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 in February 1709.