TITCOMB, JOHN HENRY, brother of William Holt Yates Titcomb (qv); b. 17 Feb 1863; adm. 20 Oct 1873 (G); left Aug 1879; member, Lloyds; d. Apr 1952 [check].
Titcomb, John Abbot, son of Harold Abbot Titcomb, mining engineer, of Farmington, Maine, USA, and Ethel, d. olJames Brignall of Wallington, Surrey; b. 27 Oct. 1910; adm. Jan. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Dartmouth Coll., BA 1932; Yale Univ. 1933-5; a mining engineer; Newmont Mining Corpn New York; US Marine Corps in WW2 (Capt.); rn. 3 Feb. 1940Janet, d. of Arthur Burling Foote of Grass Valley, California; d. I Mar. 1945 of wounds received in action, at Luzon, Philippines.
John Abbott “Jack” Titcomb was born at Newton, Massachusetts on the 27th of October 1910 the elder son of Harold Abbott Titcomb, a mining engineer, and Ethel (nee Brignall) Titcomb of High Street, Farmington, Maine and of 60, Addison Road, Kensington in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from January 1925 to July 1929 and won the Junior Rouse Ball Prize for Mathematics in 1928. He rowed at bow for the 2nd IV in 1928. He went on to Dartmouth College where he studied Mining and Geology and graduated with a BA in 1932. He then studied at the Sheffield Mining School at Yale from 1933 to 1935 and later studied in Yugoslavia. On leaving university he worked for the Newmont Mining Corporation of New York and was an active member of the Ledyard Canoe Club. He was a skiing instructor and a ski racer.
He was married at Emanuel Church, Grass Valley, California on the 3rd of February 1940 to Janet Stanwood (nee Foote, later Micoleau). They had a daughter, Marian, born on the 11th of July 1942 and a son, Peter Abbot, born on the 9th of May 1944.
He was acting as the head of a Marine air-ground liaison party on Luzon in the Philippines when he was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper at San Fernando, La Union. He was awarded a posthumous Silver Star with Gold Star.
His father donated land in his memory for the Titcomb Memorial Ski Slope (now Titcomb Mountain) in Maine, which was named in his honour in 1949.
He is commemorated on a plaque at the base ski lodge at Titcomb Mountain.
He is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Plot A, Row 9, Grave 164.
Titcomb, Andrew Abbot, brother of John Abbot Titcomb (qv); b. 6 June 1914; adm. May 1928 (R); left July 1932; Dartmouth Coll., NH, USA, BA 1936; USNR in WW2 (Lieut.); an architect, MAIA ASNE; practised in Vermont 1955-88; chairman Board of Architects State of Vermont 1955-87; JP, Town Officer and Selectman Weathersfield, Vermont, 1950-88; m. 9 Nov. 1940 Joanna Curtiss, d. of Otis Grey Waring of Titusville, Florida; d. 8 Mar. 2004.
TIRWHITT, CECIL, eldest son of Marmaduke Tirwhitt, Cameringham, Lincs. , and Mary Haggerston; b. ; at school under Busby one year (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 55); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 2 Jul 1640, aged 16, matr. Mich. 1640; MA 1641/2; of Cameringham, Lincs. ; m. Anne Townsend; d. 1694.
TIREL-MORIN, JOHN RICHARD ROSE, eldest son of John Tirel-Morin, Hanover Square, London, Keeper of Papers, Treasury, and Receiver-Gen., Gibraltar, and Mary Anne --- (IGI); b. 5 Apr 1785; adm. 14 Jan 1793 (Clapham); in school list 1795; KS 1799; Midshipman, Royal Navy; killed by fall from aloft on board HMS L’Heureux, Martinique, West Indies Jun 1801.
TIPPING, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 14 Sep 1796 (Clapham); left about Christmas 1796.
TIPPING, EDWARD ALEXANDER, third son of William Tipping MP FSA, Brasted Park, Kent, and Maria, dau. of Benjamin Walker, Leeds, Yorks.; b. 2 Oct 1852; adm. 4 Apr 1866 (James'); Min. Can. 1867; left Dec 1870; d. of scarlet fever 9 Jan 1871.
TIPPING, ---; b.; in school list 1797.
Tippett, Oxburgh Gordon, son of Sydney Gordon Tippett MRCS and Olive Tippett, of Staines, Middx; b. Oct. 1901; adm. May 1913 (H); left Apr. 1917; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1926; FRCS 1932; Emergency Med. Services 1939-45; Bermondsey Health Cen tre 1948-50; consult. orthopaedic surgeon to St Olave's Hosp. and Guy's Hosp. London, and to Farnham & Winchester Groups, 1950-65; retd 1966; m. 1st 18 Dec. 1933 Hilda Margaret, d. of H. Davidson; 2nd 31 Mar. 1978 Priscilla Mary, d. of Francis Reginald Gilpin Milton; d. 6 Oct. 1988.