Background

The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, Andrew Kippis was born at Nottingham.

Career

Having gone to school at Sleaford in Lincolnshire he passed at the age of sixteen to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Doctor Philip Doddridge was then president 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.

Achievements

• Andrew Kippis is regarded for his chief work, 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.

Works

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  • The analogy of religion : natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Captain Cook's voyages, with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods

Membership

Andrew Kippis was a member of the Royal Society.

Connections

Father:

Robert Kippis

colleague:

Joseph Towers