Background
Sir Thomas Junior"s wife, Anne the daughter of Thomas Cheke, had inherited Pyrgo Park at Havering-atte-Bower in Essex in 1659 and the couple inherited Wheatfield Park in 1693.
Sir Thomas Junior"s wife, Anne the daughter of Thomas Cheke, had inherited Pyrgo Park at Havering-atte-Bower in Essex in 1659 and the couple inherited Wheatfield Park in 1693.
Tipping entered Trinity College, Oxford in 1669, and Lincoln"s Inn where he studied law in 1672. Later, however, he became infamous for having contrived to marry his ward to a prostitute of his acquaintance. He fled to the Netherlands for a while.
He was listed as being opposed to the King in 1688 and joined William III upon his landing in England.
Besides his political activities, Tipping was also a military officer as Lieutenant-Colonel in Lord Mordaunt"s regiment of foot between 1688 and 1691. He was made a baronet in 1698 but died in debt, in prison, in Southwark on 1 July 1718, aged 65.
Tipping became a notorious whig and was elected a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire (1685) and then Wallingford (1689, 1695 and 1698).