Antique Buckingham Map

THE HUNDRED OF BUCKINGHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Hand-coloured engraved map. 

An antique map which was published in "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckinghamshire" by George Lipecomb. Published in 1847. Boundaries of the county are shown as well as those of the Hundred. Roads, rivers, canals and railways are indicated.

Quality wooden frame and mount, which is hand-detailed boarded.

Frame 48cm x 57cm

Good condition for age, with only slight discolouration. The map mount, is slightly short in one small area. Some wear to the frame.

George Lipscomb (1773–1846) was an English physician and antiquarian, known particularly for his county history of Buckinghamshire.

Born on 4 January 1773 at Quainton, Buckinghamshire, he was the son of James Lipscomb, surgeon R.N., by Mary, daughter of Jonathan George, yeoman, of Grendon Underwood in the same county. After attending schools at Quainton and Aylesbury, and receiving some medical instruction from his father, he studied surgery in London under Sir James Earle.

In 1792 Lipscomb was appointed house-surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1794 he became lieutenant of the North Hants Militia, and in 1798 captain commandant of the Warwickshire volunteer infantry, for whom he wrote an Address to the Volunteers on their Duty to their King and Country. In 1798 also he was chosen deputy recorder of Warwick.

On 6 June 1806 Lipscomb obtained from Marischal College, Aberdeen, the diploma of M.D. During 1811 he became co-editor of the National Adviser, a newspaper set up by Henry Redhead Yorke. He suggested the plan of the Society for the Encouragement of Agricultural Industry in an essay, for which he received a premium and a silver medal from the Board of Agriculture.

Lipscomb died on 9 November 1846, and was buried in the graveyard of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. He was a friend of Henry Tattam, and cousin of William Lipscomb.