ANDREW

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• ANDREW KIPPIS (1725–1795)

KIPPIS (1725–1795)  , English nonconformist divine and biographer, son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, was born at Nottingham on the 28th of March 1725 . From school at Sleaford in Lincolnshire he passed at the age of sixteen to the nonconformist academy at Northampton, of which Dr Doddridge was then president . In 1746 Kippis became minister of a church at Boston; in 1750 he removed to Dorking in Surrey; and in 1753 he became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Westminster, where he remained till his death on the 8th of October 1795 . Kippis took a prominent part in the affairs of his church . From 1763 till 1784 he was classical and philological tutor in Coward's training college at Hoxton; and subsequently for some years at another institution of the same kind at Hackney . In 1778 he was elected a fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779 . Kippis was a very voluminous writer . He contributed largely to The Gentleman's Magazine, The Monthly Review and The Library; and he had a good deal to do with the establishment and conduct of The New AnnualRegister . He published also a number of sermons and occasional pamphlets; and he prefixed a life of the author to a collected edition of Dr Nathaniel Lardner's Works (1788) . He wrote a life of Dr Doddridge, which is prefixed to Doddridge's Exposition of the New Testament (1792) . His chief work is his edition of the Biographia Britannica, of which, however, he only lived to publish 5 vols . (folio, 1778-1793) .

In this work he had the assistance of Dr Towers . See

notice by A . Rees, D.D., in The New Annual Register for 1795 .