Introduction

Biography

Andrew was the son of Ro­bert Kip­pis, a silk ho­sier.

He at­tend­ed school at Slea­ford, Lin­coln­shire, then, at age 16, the Dis­sent­ing Aca­de­my at North­amp­ton, where Phil­ip Dodd­ridge was pre­si­dent.

In 1746, Kip­pis be­came min­is­ter of a church at Bos­ton; in 1750 he moved to Dork­ing, Sur­rey; and in 1753 he be­came pas­tor of the Pres­by­te­ri­an con­gre­ga­tion at Princ­es Street Cha­pel, West­min­ster, where he re­mained un­til his death.

Kippis was a class­ic­al tu­tor at the Hox­ton Aca­de­my (1763–84), and lat­er at 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.

Works

He co­ntrib­ut­ed to the Gen­tle­man’s Ma­ga­zine and the Month­ly Re­view, found­ed the New An­nu­al Re­gis­ter, and ed­it­ed five vol­umes of a new edi­tion of the Bi­o­gra­phia Bri­tan­ni­ca, a work be­gun in 1778 and in­ter­rupt­ed by his death.

His oth­er works in­clude:

• Narrative of the Voy­ag­es Round the World, Per­formed by Cap­tain James Cook, with an Ac­count of His Life Dur­ing the Pre­vi­ous and In­ter­ven­ing Per­io­ds, 1788
• Lardner’s Works, 1788
• A Col­lection of Hymns and Psalms for Pub­lic and Pri­vate Wor­ship, with Abra­ham Rees, Tho­mas Jer­vis & Tho­mas Morgan (Lon­don: 1795)