Person: TIPTON, James (1847-1922)

Person summary

Biographical summary of this person

Full name

Isaac James TIPTON

Gender

male

Relevance of this person

author/arranger of services of song used with slide sets

Main period of activity

1870s-90s

Chronology

Date

Age

Event/activity

1847

born at

Southwark, London, England

1871

resident

Post Office, Probus, Cornwall, England

2 April 1871

~24

census record

1871 Census of England and Wales, RG10/2272.28.6
– occupation “School Master”

1881-1891

resident

South Street Boys' School, South Street, Taunton, Somerset, England

3 April 1881

~34

census record

1881 Census of England and Wales, RG11/2366.106.12
– occupation “Schoolmaster”

29 January 1884

~37

lecturer

[Magic lantern lecture] (lantern lecture, Watchet, Somerset, England, 29 January 1884)

1891-1892

~44

member

National Society of Lanternists

5 April 1891

~44

census record

1891 Census of England and Wales, RG12/1869.29.1
– occupation “Schoolmaster”

1901

resident

14 Trinity Street, Taunton, Somerset, England

31 March 1901

~54

census record

1901 Census of England and Wales, RG13/2278.154.45
– occupation “Schoolmaster”

1922

resident

Richmond Road, Taunton, Somerset, England

16 April 1922

~75

died at

Taunton, Somerset, England

9 May 1922

archive entry

National Probate Calendar Index of Wills and Administrations, 1922 p.93

Texts linked to this person

Services of song (21)

James Tipton (arranger), Biddy: a service of sacred song (London and Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

James Tipton (arranger), The boy martyr: or, faithful unto death (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (arr. James Tipton), Eva: a musically illustrated service (London: A. Weekes & Co., 1875)

C.R. Parsons (comp. James Tipton), For the master's sake: a temperance service of song (London and Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Lily Knight (arr. James Tipton), The golden key: a musical service (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

B. Swan (arr. James Tipton), Golden links: or, led by the Lord (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Charlotte Lockhart Gordon (arr. James Tipton), Hump and all: or a mother's prayer (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

M.S. Haycraft (arr. James Tipton), Humpty Dumpty and his silver bells (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

James Tipton (arranger), Little Dot (n.d.)

Frances Evans (arr. James Tipton), Mattie's home (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Mary Sewell (arr. James Tipton), Mother's last words (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

B. Swan (arr. James Tipton), One of His jewels: a musical service of song (London and Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

Mary Sewell (arr. James Tipton), Our Father's care: a musically illustrated service (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

James Tipton (arr. James Tipton), Paul: the little mediator (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

John J. Rae (arr. James Tipton), The shadow of a life (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

John J. Rae (arr. James Tipton), The way to Heaven: a service of song (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

James Tipton (arr. James Tipton), Wee Davie: a musically illustrated service (London and Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

‘G.M.H.’ (arr. James Tipton), Whiter than snow (London: S.P.C.K., Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and A. Weekes & Co., 1882)

M.S. Haycraft (arr. James Tipton), Won by a child (Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.)

References

Help: a journal of social service (1891-1892) Vol. 1 No. 8 (1 September 1891), p. 155
– member of National Society of Lanternists

Hughes's illustrated price list of magic and patent cylindrical dissolving view lanterns and apparatus (London: W.C. Hughes, 1878), p. 2

Notes

A testimonial letter from Tipton in the 1878 Hughes catalogue (incorrectly giving his first initial as 'F') gives his address as Taunton, Somerset, and his position as 'Head Master, British School'. The letter is praising Hughes' slide set for Tipton's service of song Eva.

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