Portrait of Andrew Kippis
Photo: Francesco Bartolozzi, after William Artaud · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Andrew Kippis

British minister (1725-1795)

Born
March 28, 1725, Nottingham
Died
October 8, 1795
Occupation
Religious person, biographer and writer

Life and work

Andrew Kippis (28 March 1725 – 8 October 1795) was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.

Life

The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to Carre's Grammar School in Sleaford, Lincolnshire he passed aged 16 to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Dr Philip Doddridge was then president. In 1746 Kippis became minister of a church at Boston; in 1750 he moved to Dorking, Surrey; and in 1753 he became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Westminster, where he remained till his death.

Kippis took a prominent part in the affairs of his church. From 1763 till 1784 he was classical and philological tutor in the Coward Trust's academy at Hoxton, and subsequently in the New College at Hackney. In 1778 he was elected a fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779.

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Collection

Books by Andrew Kippis

1 book