Arnold Lupton was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, academic, anti-vaccinationist, mining engineer and a managing director.
24 Facts About Arnold Lupton
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Arnold Lupton was jailed for pacifist activity during the First World War.
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Arnold Lupton was the son of Arthur Lupton, and Elizabeth Wicksteed.
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Arnold Lupton, the first managing director of the Shirebrook Colliery Company in 1894, was a controversial figure.
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Arnold Lupton left Shirebrook four years later after a 17-week miners' strike because of poor working conditions and low wages.
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Arnold Lupton was the consulting engineer and manager at Highfield Colliery, Oakerthorpe in Chesterfield and resident engineer and manager at Bettisfield Colliery.
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Arnold Lupton was consulting engineer and manager of Manston, New Hall, Fieldhouse, and Rock Collieries.
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Arnold Lupton inspected coal and other mines and quarries in Britain, Europe, the United States, Australia and India and was an expert witness in Parliamentary and Arbitration cases.
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Arnold Lupton was awarded the Silver Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem for saving life in a mine when he saved two persons after an explosion at Wharncliffe Colliery, Barnsley.
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Arnold Lupton published many papers on mining and three books, Mining, Mine Surveying and Electricity as Applied to Mining, in conjunction with Parr and Perkin.
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Arnold Lupton obtained Acts of Parliament for Yorkshire Electric Power and for Derby and Nottingham Electric Power.
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The promised capital was not forthcoming and Arnold Lupton, facing a crisis, turned to Hugo Stinnes, a German industrialist.
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In 1922 Arnold Lupton had still not been paid and claimed the money from his pre-war deal in an arbitration court.
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Arnold Lupton was elected in 1906 as the Member of Parliament for the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire, defeating the Conservative MP Henry Chaplin who had represented Sleaford and its predecessor seat since 1868.
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Whilst an MP, Arnold Lupton had the opportunity to vote for the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill but he neither spoke nor voted in the debate.
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In 1926 Arnold Lupton lobbied the Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain, to abolish compulsory vaccination.
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The prolific Arnold Lupton wrote much to fellow Liberal MPs, including Winston Churchill, and campaigners such as Bertrand Russell, on these issues.
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Alongside Liberal Home Secretary, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Arnold Lupton was an associate of the Balkan Committee which had been founded in 1906 by Radical Liberal Cabinet Minister James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce.
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Arnold Lupton was defeated at the January 1910 election by the Conservative Edmund Royds and did not contest the December 1910 General Election when Royds was returned unopposed.
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Arnold Lupton was imprisoned for six months for distributing pacifist leaflets activities considered prejudicial to recruiting in February 1918.
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Arnold Lupton contested Plaistow at the 1918 General Election presenting himself as a 'Liberal and Temperance' candidate.
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Arnold Lupton was well known on the international stage, visiting the United States of America, India, Ireland, Australia and other countries as a lecturer on mining and political campaigner.
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Arnold Lupton was an anti-vaccinationist believing that vaccines were dangerous and the Government should dissociate itself from supporting their use.
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Arnold Lupton authored the booklet Vaccination and the State, published in 1921.