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.
Lipscomb died on 9 November 1846, and was buried in the graveyard of St. George the Martyr, Southwark [REF].