DIPPLE, Ian Alexander Keith (1934-2017)

[Richard R]

From the Times of 10 October 2017: DIPPLE  Ian Alexander Keith. A memorial service in celebration of Ian's life will be held at St Margaret the Queen, Buxted park, on Tuesday 14th November, at 2.30pm. No flowers, but donations welcome to Challey Heritage Foundation, c/o Masters & Son, Lewes Road, Lindfield.

He died on 14 September 2017 (The Times 16 Sept) and was s of (Edward) Keith DIPPLE (1904-84) and Margaret Sheila SHANNON (1902-79). He m 1965 (as her 2nd h) Hon Susan Margaret Nevill MONEY-COUTTS (b 1933, previously Mrs Michael Turner) d of 7th Baron LATYMER (1901-87) and Patience Margaret THOMPSON (d 1972). They had a son and a dau.

[G. Willis]

I had a look at the Dipple family, which proved to be a quite interesting study of social mobility. I got as far back as William Dipple, a jeweller of Birmingham, according to the marriage record of his son, Edward Dipple (1824-1881), a wholesale furniture dealer and cabinet maker, of Penrhyn House, Kenninghall Road, Hackney, formerly of Albert Villas, also Hackney. Edward married, in 1857, Sarah, daughter of Whittaker Pate, a 'gentleman' (again according to the marriage record) of Whilton (perhaps actually Wilton) Place, Salford. Whatever their exact claims to social status, there were several servants in this Dipple household in all the census records I looked at. They had several sons: the eldest, William Edward (1858-1937), was a cabinet salesman and commercial clerk; Robert Pate (1861-1932) was employed in China by Butterfield and Swire, a trading company (and also appears in records as junior warden of the Perseverance Lodge of Hong Kong); Edward Shipman (1863-1932) was a draper's assistant, wool warehouseman, and 'clerk to public company'; Charles Albert (1865-1942) was 'manager to accountant bk manufacture' (no idea what this actually means, but something respectable enough-sounding)- his son, (Wilfred) Eric Dipple (1894-1974), a farmer at Victoria, British Columbia, was, at the time of his marriage in 1918, a second lieutenant in the R.A.F.; Canadian records outlining his career with the 9th Regt Canadian Mounted Rifles give his rank as 'Group Captain' (which to my understanding is an R.A.F. rank rather than Army, so he presumably achieved that rank whilst serving with the R.A.F.)- his wife was Alice, daughter of Henry Boazman, of Acorn Bank, Westmorland. The Boazman family were lords of that manor since the time of Henry's grandfather John, and mined gypsum there. They are apparently connected by marriage- in more recent generations- with Beatrix Potter.

Edward Dipple's youngest son was Thomas Robinson Dipple (1868-1941), who appears to have started out as a hosier, then become a 'mineral water maker', ending up as publican of The Flora, at Kensal Green. Edward Keith Dipple was his second son.