He suffered financially during the agricultural depression of the 1870s and later worked as a hop factor at Leigh.
[2] A well-built man, Lord Harris described him as the "fiercest of bowlers" and Lipscomb took 206 wickets in his 48 first-class matches for Kent.
[2] His Wisden obituary described him as "one of the fastest and straightest amateur fast bowlers of his day".
[3] After impressing whilst playing for Town Malling, Lipscomb's first-class debut was for Kent against an England XI during the 1862 Canterbury Cricket Week.
[2] One of their sons, Frank Lipscomb, played first-class cricket, mainly as a fast bowler for Kent in the 1880s before emigrating to Australia.