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Henry Avray Tipping (22 August 1855 – 16 November 1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of ''Country Life'' magazine for 17 years. ==Early life== Tipping was born in the Château de Ville-d'Avray near Versailles, while his parents were living in France before moving into Brasted Place in Kent, where he grew up. He belonged to a Quaker Christian family of businessmen, who had prospered in the corn trade in Liverpool. His father, William Tipping (1816–1897), was a railway company owner and amateur archaeologist and artist, who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Stockport between 1868–74 and 1885–86. His mother Maria (''née'' Walker, 1822–1911) was the daughter of a flax mill owner from Leeds. Henry Avray Tipping was educated in France and Middlesex before reading modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.〔 He worked briefly as a university lecturer before joining the staff of the Dictionary of National Biography, where he concentrated on genealogical research.〔( H. Gerrish, 'The Life of H. Avray Tipping', in ''Bulletin of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust''; No. 53 (Winter 2008/09), pp.6–7 )〕 He also wrote musical comedies, performed locally in Kent, and became an expert on wood carving, particularly the work of Grinling Gibbons.〔
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