George Frederick John Tippett (1828,

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– 21 July 1899)George Frederick Tippett
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. He is responsible for the construction of many buildings in the area which remain today, including

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Biography

Tippett was 31 years of age in 1860.History of the Portobello and St Quintin Estates
Retrieved September, 2011 Tippett was active in the

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area in the 1860s, by now a wealthy builder who around this time was constructing a substantial number of sizeable terrace houses in Leinster Square, Prince's Square, and elsewhere in the vicinity of Paddington. Two of his relatives, Thomas Sheade Tippett and John Tippett assisted him with the development of his Kensington estate. Tippett began to develop the former St Quintin Estate in the 1870s. The houses were intended as single family homes for the well-to-do but from the beginning it proved difficult to attract wealthy buyers to the area, and as early as 1888 many of his buildings began to be subdivided into flats.O'Malley, p.33 In 1885 Tippett was declared bankrupt. He attributed his failure to "his inability to let a large portion of his property and to the pressure of secured creditors". Gradually the character of the buildings declined as wealthier tenants left the area.

References

*''The Politics of Community Action in Notting Hill'', Jan O'Malley, Spokesman Press, 1977 *''The Portobello and St. Quintin estates'', Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington (1973)
History of the Portobello and St Quintin Estates
Retrieved February 20, 2010

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tippett, George Frederick 1828 births 1899 deaths British real estate and property developers History of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea People from Paddington 19th-century British businesspeople