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Sydney Gordon Tippett
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Sydney Gordon Tippett
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 2 April 1947
Given by Walter Stoneman, before 1951
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NPG x188629
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- Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 18527 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
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Hilary Tippett
28 September 2016, 11:40
Dr Sydney Gordon Tippett was born on 27 Mar 1872 in Brighton, Sussex and died 18 Feb 1954. He was described as being a 'very clever doctor and a charming man'. His parents were George Frederick Tippett (an entrepreneur and developer in Notting Hill) and his wife Mary May. Sydney was the youngest of their ten surviving children. He was a medical student at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, later senior house surgeon at Westminster Hospital. He did much research into TB and his work encouraged the practice of milk being sold in glass bottles rather than being poured into a customer's own jug. During WW1 he entered the Royal Medical Army Corps as a Captain and served in Egypt, later being posted to become Medical Officer in Chief of St. George's Hospital, Malta which treated the gravely injured from Gallipoli. The writer Vera Brittain worked as a nurse at St. George's in 1917.
Sydney married three times, his first wife being Olive Gordon by whom he had two sons. He was
was the uncle of Sir Michael Tippett, the composer.