# Robert Lippe

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'''Robert Lippe''' (18 June 1833 – 28 January 1913) was a Scottish minister mainly serving as chaplain to public services in Aberdeen. He is chiefly remembered as an archaeologist and mountaineer, notably founding the [Cairngorm Club](/source/Cairngorm_Club) in 1887.

==Life==

He was born in [Kennethmont](/source/Kennethmont) in [Aberdeenshire](/source/Aberdeenshire) on 18 June 1833 the eldest son of Robert Lippe, a mill-wright.

He studied Divinity at [Marischal College](/source/Marischal_College) in [Aberdeen](/source/Aberdeen) 1851 to 1856, graduating MA. In 1862 he became a schoolteacher in the village of [Forgue](/source/Forgue) where he continued until 1879. During this period (in 1868) he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of [Turriff](/source/Turriff) on behalf of the [Church of Scotland](/source/Church_of_Scotland),<ref>{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1915 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |url=https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc00scot/fastiecclesiaesc00scot_djvu.txt |oclc=724097268}}</ref> but failed to find a position.

In 1879 he obtained a joint appointment as Chaplain to both [Aberdeen Royal Infirmary](/source/Aberdeen_Royal_Infirmary) and Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum. He then lived at 28 Argyll Place in [Aberdeen](/source/Aberdeen).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://digital.nls.uk/86960081 |title=Post Office Aberdeen Directory |publisher=A. King and Company |date=1884 |page=373}}</ref>

He was a member of the [New Spalding Club](/source/New_Spalding_Club) and a founder of the [Cairngorm Club](/source/Cairngorm_Club) and was its first Vice President.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Cairngorm Club |last=Lippe |first=Robert |journal=Proceedings of the Cairngorm Club |date=1893 |volume=1 |url=http://www.cairngormclub.org.uk/journals/PDFs/Complete/The%20Cairngorm%20Club%20Journal%20001%20WM.pdf |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Fifty Years of the Cairngorm Club |journal=The Cairngorm Club Journal |volume=XV |date=1939 |url=http://www.cairngormclub.org.uk/journals/PDFs/Complete/The%20Cairngorm%20Club%20Journal%20080%20WM.pdf}}</ref>

Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1895.

He died on 28 January 1913.<ref>{{cite journal |title=In Memoriam: Rev. Robert Lippe, LL.D. |journal=The Cairngorm Club Journal |volume=VII |date=July 1913 |page=278 |url=http://www.cairngormclub.org.uk/journals/PDFs/Complete/The%20Cairngorm%20Club%20Journal%20041%20WM.pdf}}</ref>

==Family==

In December 1862 he married Mary McCondach (d.1903) daughter of John McCondach, a builder. Their daughter Mary Lippe became Principal of Queen's Gate School in Aberdeen. His son Charles Lippe (1868-1919) became an advocate.

==Publications==

*''Missale Romanum Mediolani''
*''A Historical Sketch of the Cairngorm Club'' (1894)<ref>Scottish Notes and Queries 1894</ref>
*''Selections from Wodrow's Biographical Collections'' (1890)

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