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See also:KIPPIS, See also:ANDREW (1725–1795) , See also:English See also:nonconformist divine and biographer, son of See also:Robert Kippis, a See also:silk-hosier, was See also:born at See also:Nottingham on the 28th of See also:March 1725. From school at See also:Sleaford in See also:Lincolnshire he passed at the See also:age of sixteen to the nonconformist See also:academy at See also:Northampton, of which Dr See also:Doddridge was then See also:president. In 1746 Kippis became See also:minister of a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Boston; in 1750 he removed to See also:Dorking in See also:Surrey; and in 1753 he became pastor of a Presbyterian See also:congregation at See also:Westminster, where he remained till his See also:death on the 8th of See also:October 1795. Kippis took a prominent See also:part in the affairs of his church. From 1763 till 1784 he was classical and philological See also:tutor in See also:Coward's training See also:college at Hoxton; and subsequently for some years at another institution of the same See also:kind at See also:Hackney. In 1778 he was elected a See also:fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779.
Kippis was a very voluminous writer. He contributed largely to The See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, The Monthly See also:Review and The Library; and he had a See also:good See also:deal to do with the See also:establishment and conduct of The New AnnualRegister. He published also a number of sermons and occasional See also:pamphlets; and he prefixed a See also:life of the author to a collected edition of Dr Nathaniel See also:Lardner's See also:Works (1788). He wrote a life of Dr Doddridge, which is prefixed to Doddridge's Exposition of the New Testament (1792). His See also:chief See also:work is his edition of the Biographia Britannica, of which, however, he only lived to publish 5 vols. (See also:folio, 1778-1793). In this work he had the assistance of Dr Towers. See See also:notice by A. See also:Rees, D.D., in The New See also:Annual See also:Register for 1795.
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