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Thomas is a descendant of Thomas Tipping, who was Mayor of Preston Guild in the reign of Henry VIII, by his second son, Richard Tipping of Tipping gates, who died 1592
The family of Tipping is one of much antiquity, and connected witb Lancashire for
some centuries past, Tipping hall, a mansion near Blackbiu-n, having been the
residence of a family bearing that name so early as the reign of Edward III.
About the commencement of the sixteenth century, one branch settled in Pres-
ton, Thomas Tipping being mayor of Preston guild in 34 Henry VIII. His
second son, Richard, removed to Manchester, and gave to his mansion there the
name of Tipping Gates. Tbe name occurs fi'equently in the court leet records,
and members of the family, connected by intermamage with the old Manchester
families of Mosley, Diggles, Byi'om, Clowes and Bancroft, took their part among
their townsmen in serving the office of boroughreeve or constable during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centui'ies. One of the feoffees of the school ap-
pointed in 1628 was "Mr. Tipping."
The father of tliis scholar was a feoffee of Chetham's hospital, and married, on
the 4th February 1768, Anne, daughter of Robert Gartside, esq., of Prestwich,
and ultimately heu-ess of her brother in half-blood, John Gartside, esq., of
CrumpsaU haU (see Eeffister, vol. i. p. 85), and left at his decease, on the 6th
January 1800, three daughters, of whom the eldest, Anne, married in 1805, John
Douglas, esq., of the Old haU, Pendleton, and afterwards of Gyrn castle, Flint-
shii-e (for whom see Register, anno 1780) ; and the youngest, Mary, married John
Hardman, esq., of Manchester, for whose son, Joseph Tipping Hardman, see
MANCHESTER SCHOOL REGISTER.
Register, anno 1817. His only surviving son, Thomas Tipping, esq., lord of the
manor of Bolton, resided at Davenport hall, Cheshire, and died there on the
27th March 1846, being snccceded by his son, Grartside Tipping, esq., now of
Davenport hall.
John Tipping, the scholar here entered, was born in 1769 ; married in 1794 Lydia,
daughter of Matthew-Dymoke Lister, of Burwell park, in the county of Lincoln,
esq., but died witliout issue on the jrd July 1797, in the lifetime of his father.
His name occurs in the records of the anniversary meetings of old scholars as
having been present in 1788, 1790, and 1793, and not later. He took part in
the recitations of the annual speech day in 1785.
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