Andrew Kippis

Andrew Kippis (1725-95) was a Presbyterian minister at Princes Street, Westminster (1753-95). He was also a biographer, magazine writer, and editor (along with Thomas Jervis and Thomas Morgan) of A Collection of Hymns and Psalms for Public and Private Worship (1795), the first Unitarian hymnal to receive wide circulation. Besides his biographies of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Captain Cook, Philip Doddridge, and Job Orton, Kippis wrote extensively for the Gentleman’s Magazine, Monthly Review, and the New Annual Register, as well as the History of Ancient Literature and the Review of Modern Books. He is mostly known, however, for his work on the Biographia Britannica (5 vols, 1778-93, only into the letter ‘F’), of which he was the editor, although many others contributed.