Sir Thomas was the eldest son of John Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Christopher Pigott of Doddershall in Buckinghamshire. He was baptised in Wheatfield parish church on 10 December 1615, but his father died when he was only four years old.
Trinity College.
Four years later, he matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford at the age fifteen. From 1647, Tipping served on various local Oxfordshire commissions. To commemorate this event portraits were painted of Sir Thomas and Lady Tipping by Gilbert Soest.
Both, for many years, hung in Bramshill House in Hampshire, home of their descendants, the Cope family.
The former is now in the Tate Gallery. The whereabouts of the latter is unknown.
Sir Thomas died on 1 March 1693, aged 78, and was buried at Wheatfield.
