Born in St Albans, the son of a medical practitioner who was Mayor on two occasions and Alderman for more than fifty years, and of a daughter of the Rev John Nicholson, Rector of the Abbey Church. He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and after qualifying in 1841 joined in partnership with his father. He continued to practise in St Albans till about the year 1894, and took an active part in the life of the town, having been elected to the Town Council in 1855, and was one of the four Aldermen - succeeding his father, who had been one - from 1869-1883. In 1870 he was Mayor, and for forty-one years he was Rector's Churchwarden in connection with the Abbey Church, as well as being one of the original members of the Abbey Restoration Committee. At the time of his death he was Hon Consulting Physician to the St Albans Hospital, Physician to the Marlborough Almshouses, and Medical Visitor to the Lunatic Asylum, Harpenden; he was also Surgeon to the Prison at St Albans. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London and a member of the St Andrews Graduates' Association. Lipscomb died at St Albans on Sept 21st, 1898. He was a member of the firm of Lipscomb, Bates, & Lipscomb, and was succeeded by his son, Eustace Henry Lipscomb, BA Cantab MRCS.