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 a poetical essay in blank verse, entitled ‘The Evils and Advantages of Genius contrasted.’

[Chambers's Biogr. Illustr. of Worcestershire, pp. 567–72; Gent. Mag. 1794 ii. 836, 1804 ii. 389, 975; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886.]

 TINMOUTH, JOHN (fl. 1366), historian, was a native of Tynemouth, and for a time vicar of that town. Afterwards he became a Benedictine monk at St. Albans, of which house Tynemouth priory was a cell. He was the author of: 1. ‘Historia Aurea a Creatione ad tempus Edwardi III.’ Tinmouth's work seems to have ended at 1347, and is so given in Lambeth MSS. 10, 11, 12. A copy of the ‘Historia Aurea,’ also ending at 1347, is contained in Bodleian MS. 240, which was made for the monks of Bury St. Edmunds in 1377. A third copy at Cambridge C.C.C. MS. B i. ii., which was formerly at St. Albans, appears to contain a continuation to 1377. 2. ‘Martyrologium or Liber Servorum Dei Major.’ 3. ‘Sanctilogium; sive, de Vitis et Miraculis Sanctorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ,’ also called ‘Liber servorum Dei Minor.’ This is contained in Cotton MS. Tiberius E. 1. A number of lives extracted from the ‘Martyrologium’ or ‘Sanctilogium’ of John de Tinmouth are contained in Bodleian MS. 240. Tinmouth appears to have borrowed his lives of saints largely from the ‘Sanctilogium’ of Guido, abbot of St. Denys from 1326 to 1343. Tinmouth was in his turn laid under contribution by Capgrave, who borrowed from him nearly all the lives in his ‘Nova Legenda Anglie;’ but Tinmouth's collection contains some material not given by Capgrave. A number of Tinmouth's lives of saints are noticed in Hardy's ‘Descriptive Catalogue of British History.’ His life of St. Bregwin is printed in Wharton's ‘Anglia Sacra’ (ii. 75). Tinmouth is also credited with expositions on various books of the Bible, and with a lectionary for all the saints commemorated in the Sarum use.

[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. pp. xxxiv. 439–40; Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue of British History; Arnold's Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey, vol. i. pp. lxv–lxvi, where Tinmouth is confused with John Tyneworth, abbot of St. Edmund's from 1385 to 1389.]

 TINNEY, JOHN (d. 1761), engraver, practised both in line and mezzotint, but with no great ability, during the reign of George II. He was also a printseller, and carried on business at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, London, where all his own works were published. His mezzotint plates include portraits of Lavinia Fenton, after John Ellys; George III, after Joseph Highmore; Chief Baron Parker; and John Wesley; also some fancy subjects after Boucher, Lancret, Rosalba, Correggio, and others. He engraved in line a set of ten views of Hampton Court and Kensington Palace, after Anthony Highmore, and some of Fontainebleau and Versailles, after Jean Rigaud. Some of the plates in Ball's ‘Antiquities of Constantinople,’ 1729, are also by him. Tinney is now remembered as the master of the distinguished engravers William Woollett [q. v.], Anthony Walker [q. v.], and John Browne (1741–1801) [q. v.] He died in 1761.

[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits; Dodd's manuscript Hist. of English Engravers in Brit. Mus. (Addit. MSS. 33406).]

 TIPPER, JOHN (d. 1713), almanac-maker, was born at Coventry. In 1699 he was elected master of Bablake school in that city in the place of Richard Butler. In 1704 he commenced an almanac and a serial collection of mathematical papers, under the title of ‘The Ladies' Diary,’ which he continued to edit until his death. Six letters from Tipper to Humphrey Wanley [q .v.], relating to the inception of the ‘Diary,’ are in Ellis's ‘Letters of Eminent Literary Men’ (Camden Soc. pp. 304–15). It was carried on until 1840, when it was united with the ‘Gentleman's Diary,’ under the title ‘The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary,’ and continued to appear until 1871. In 1710 he also founded ‘Great Britain's Diary,’ which continued to be issued until 1728. Tipper was a mathematician of considerable ability, and to the ordinary contents of astrological almanacs he added several mathematical problems of a difficult nature which his readers were invited to solve. Among those who exercised their ingenuity in attempting these was Thomas Simpson [q. v.], the well-known mathematician. In 1711 Tipper started ‘Delights for the Ingenious,’ a monthly magazine treating of mathematical questions and enigmas, and more or less popular in its character. It did not, however, survive the year. Tipper died in 1713.

[Colvile's Worthies of Warwickshire, p. 756; Catalogue of British Museum Library.]  TIPPING, WILLIAM (1598–1649), author, second son of Sir George Tipping (d. 1627) of Wheatfield and Draycott, Oxfordshire, by his wife, Dorothy (1564–1637), daughter of John Burlacy or Borlase of Little Marlow, and sheriff of Buckingham-