Background
William Lipscomb was born into a medical family. His father Thomas and his uncle James were surgeons, as was his cousin, the antiquary George Lipscomb.
William Lipscomb was born into a medical family. His father Thomas and his uncle James were surgeons, as was his cousin, the antiquary George Lipscomb.
Lipscomb graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1774 and Master of Arts
He was an English clergyman, translator and poet. He was schooled at Winchester College and then entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1770. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was later to misquote it unfairly as an example of bad poetic convention in his Biographia Literaria. in 1784.
Foreign some years he was private tutor and subsequently chaplain to Henry Vane, the future Earl of Darlington, at Raby Castle.
In 1789 he was presented to the rectory of Welbury in the North Riding of Yorkshire and was also Master of Saint John"s Hospital, Barnard Castle.