Rev. William Lipscomb

William Lipscomb studied at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College Oxford (M.A. 1784). After winning a Chancellor's Prize at Oxford for his poem on Innoculation (1772) he was rector of Welbury in Yorkshire and chaplain to the earl of Darlington. Lipscomb composed a modernization of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, which he republished only with George Ogle's modernizations from earlier in the century.

TEXT RECORDS:

1773Elegy on the Death of George Lord Lyttelton.
1784Ode to Midnight.
1799Ode to Faction.

PUBLICATIONS:

Beneficial effects of inoculation. 1772?
Poems. 1784.
Verses on the beneficial effects of inoculation. 1793.
The case of the war considered, in a letter to Henry Duncombe, Esq. 1794.
The pardoner's tale from Chaucer [modernized Lipscomb]. 1792.
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer: completed in a modern version [edited Lipscomb]. 1795.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Winchester College
Corpus Christi College Oxford

clergyman
tutor
poet
translator
editor

Gentleman's Magazine

Bp. Christopher Lipscomb
Rev. Joseph Warton

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

David Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798); Biographical Dicitonary of Living Authors (1816) 206-07; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 18 (July 1842) 100-01; John Holland, Poets of Yorkshire (1845); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. William Lipscomb:

1.	1793  Thomas Beddoes, in Review of Lipscomb, Verses on the beneficial Effects of Inoculation; The Monthly Review NS 12 (October 1793) 216-17.
2.	1795  Ralph Griffiths, Review of Lipscomb, Canterbury Tales of Chauder; The Monthly Review NS 18 (November 1795) 355.
3.	1800  Richard Polwhele, in "The Visitation of the Poets" 1800; Biographical Sketches in Cornwall (1831) 2:45.
4.	1845  John Holland, "Rev. W. Lipscomb" Poets of Yorkshire; comprising Sketches of the Lives, and Specimens of the Writings of those Children of Song (1845) 92-93.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. William Lipscomb:

1.	1798  David Rivers, in Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798) 1:376-77.
2.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dicitonary of Living Authors (1816) 206-07.
3.	1842  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 18 (July 1842) 100-01.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1773  George Lyttelton:   William Lipscomb, "Elegy on the Death of George Lord Lyttelton" Poems (1773) 16-19.
2.	1800  Rev. Joseph Warton:   William Lipscomb, "Elegy written and spoken by Mr. Lipscomb ... a Praepostor of Winchester School" 1800; Chalmers's Works of the English Poets (1810) 18:156.