Hippolyte Lippens
Hippolyte Lippens was a lawyer, manager of sugar factories and a Belgian liberal politician. He was a son of Auguste Lippens, burgomaster of Moerbeke-Waas, and he married in 1873, with Louise de Kerckhove de Denterghem, a daughter of the burgomaster of Ghent Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem.
He became burgomaster of Ghent, a member of parliament and senator for the liberal party. During his tenure as a burgomaster, the renovation of the Neerscheldewijk in Ghent was started according to the Paris model.
