87 Facts About Lupton family

1.

Lupton family is a placename surname connected with Lupton family in Cumbria.

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Roger Lupton family, Provost and benefactor of Eton College, was born in Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1456 and graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1483.

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Roger Lupton family was a Doctor of canon law and a Canon of Windsor.

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4.

Lupton family founded Sedbergh School as a chantry school while he was Provost of Eton.

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5.

Lupton family was Provost of Eton College for 30 years, and the tower in the school yard is named after him.

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6.

Francis Lupton family married Esther Midgeley of Brearey, daughter of Ralph, a yeoman farmer.

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7.

Lupton family was described as "an eminent merchant at that place".

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8.

Arthur Lupton family returned to England in 1766 before leaving for Lisbon.

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9.

Lupton family sat on the committee for the Leeds cloth halls, regulating their activities.

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10.

Arthur Lupton family married Olive Rider, the only daughter of David Rider in 1773.

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11.

Lupton family's father had substantial land holdings in Mabgate and the Leylands between North Street and Wade Lane.

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12.

William Lupton family became entangled with the estate of his wife's grandfather, Nathan Rider.

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13.

Lupton family left a wife, named Ann, to bring up four children alone.

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14.

William Lupton family died in 1828 leaving a wife, ten children and extensive debts.

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15.

Lupton family owed Becketts Bank more than £13,000 and more than £15,000 to his father-in-law.

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16.

The Lupton family widows maintained their social status and living standards with their own personal estates and by developing their inherited urban landholdings.

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17.

Lupton family laid out Merrion Street with plots for terraced houses and Belgrave Street with larger plots and a garden square.

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18.

Lupton family retired to Gledhow Mount in the proto suburb of Potternewton in 1858 where she died aged 81 in 1865.

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19.

Lupton family subdivided some of the estate and Newton Grove was built in the 1850s.

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20.

Lupton family married Jane Crawford on 25 April 1866 and moved to The Elms, which was given its original name, Headingley Castle.

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21.

Darnton Lupton family supported building Leeds Town Hall and as vice president of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, presided over the Exhibition of Local Industry arranged in conjunction with its opening.

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22.

Lupton family was a member of the welcoming party that greeted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who opened the town hall on 7 September 1858.

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23.

Lupton family was created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon III for the Exhibit of Cloths in the Paris Exhibition of 1855.

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24.

Darnton and Francis Lupton family became co-owners of the Newton Hall estate when their brother sold it in 1870.

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25.

Lupton family married, firstly, Sarah Darnton Lubbock who died shortly after the birth in 1833 of Kate, their only child.

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26.

Lupton family married, secondly, Anna Jane Busk, granddaughter of Sir Wadsworth Busk at St Peter's Church, Bradford in 1838.

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27.

Anna Lupton family joined her cousin Lord Houghton and sister-in-law Frances Lupton family in support of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women.

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28.

Lupton family was 15 when his father died, but had already acquired an extensive knowledge of the cloth trade.

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29.

Lupton family joined the board of the Bank of Leeds, became a magistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire and overseer of the poor in the parish of Roundhay.

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30.

Lupton family was chairman of the finance committee of the Yorkshire College of Science, created in 1874.

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31.

Francis and Frances Lupton family lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847, acquiring the freehold in 1860.

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32.

Lupton family was a leading Unitarian, serving as president and later vice-president of Manchester New College, the training college for ministers, during the 1880s and 1890s, helping to plan and finance its move from London to Oxford.

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33.

Lupton family was a passionate anti-slavery campaigner, joining with the minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Charles Wicksteed, in being ardent admirers of the campaigner William Lloyd Garrison, an advocate of immediate abolition.

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34.

Joseph Lupton family supported the campaign for votes for women, sitting on the committee for the National Society for Women's Suffrage.

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35.

Lupton family married Edward, Baron von Schunck in 1867 and they lived at Gledhow Wood.

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36.

Lupton family was a wealthy woman with an interest in the Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education.

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37.

Lupton family was a member of the committee that established Leeds Girls' High School along with her aunt, Frances Lupton.

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38.

Lupton family supported Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds Infirmary and the University of Leeds.

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39.

Lupton family was invited, along with Lord and Lady Airedale, to the coronation of King George V in 1911.

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40.

Lupton family died at her home Gledhow Wood aged 80 on 16 May 1913.

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41.

In 1880, Frank Lupton family married Harriet Albina Davis, daughter of clergyman Thomas Davis.

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42.

Lupton family died in 1892, two weeks after the birth of their youngest son.

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43.

Lupton family was a Justice of the Peace for Leeds and the West Riding.

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44.

Lupton family was an alderman until 1916, when his brother Charles was Lord Mayor of Leeds.

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45.

Frank Lupton family was interested in the welfare of the poor and, impressed by social reformer Octavia Hill, worked to improve poor working class housing.

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46.

Lupton family opposed proposals to build tenements for rehousing triggering his resignation as chairman.

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47.

Lupton family was an active member of the West Riding bench and took great interest in Cookridge Hospital.

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48.

Captain Maurice Lupton family was killed in action by a sniper bullet in the trenches at Lille on 19 June 1915.

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49.

Lieutenant Lionel Martineau Lupton family was wounded, mentioned in dispatches twice and, after recovering, was killed in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

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50.

Major Francis Ashford Lupton family was reported missing at Miraumont on the night of 19 February 1917 when he went out with one man on reconnaissance and was later found dead.

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51.

Generous benefactor, Frank Lupton family contributed to many causes and institutions, including the extension fund for Norwich's Octagon Chapel, of which his great grandfather, Thomas Martineau, had been deacon and in 1907 to the rebuilding of Martineau Hall, the Sunday school established by his great uncle James Martineau.

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52.

Lupton family was elected to the board of governors of the Yorkshire College at 25 and, after his father's death, took over as chairperson of its Finance Committee.

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53.

Lupton family negotiated the separation of the Yorkshire College from the Victoria University.

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54.

Lupton family hosted George V when he visited the university on 27 September 1915.

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55.

Lupton family held the post for 16 years, then returned to the council, promoting co-operation between the university and industry, especially the Clothworkers Company.

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56.

Lupton family promoted the House to House Electricity Company, which was taken over by Leeds Corporation.

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57.

Elinor Lupton family was awarded an honorary LLD for services to Leeds University in 1945 after chairing the Women's Halls Committee for 23 years.

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58.

In 1951 the Lupton family sisters donated land to expand the campus of Leeds University.

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59.

Lupton family was elected to the board of management of Leeds General Infirmary and in 1900 was treasurer and chairman of the board as it evolved into a modern hospital.

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60.

Lupton family played host to Princess Mary when she visited the Infirmary in October 1922.

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61.

Lupton family was a member of the Court and Council of the university and chairman of the Law Committee.

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62.

Lupton family inspected troops with his brothers in Colsterdale in the Yorkshire Dales in support of the Leeds Pals battalion.

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63.

Lupton family was the city council's Chairman of the Improvements Committee and promoted the construction of Leeds Outer Ring Road in the post-war years and the widening of the Upper and Lower Headrows.

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64.

Lupton family lived at Carr Head, Roundhay and left his art collection to the City of Leeds in 1935.

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65.

Hugh Lupton family was Francis III's fifth son and attended Rugby School before University College, Oxford, reading modern history.

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66.

Lupton family was apprenticed to Hathorn Davey, makers of heavy pumping machinery, in 1881 and rose to managing director, only to see the Great Depression force the company into being takenover by Sulzer.

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67.

In June 1927, Lady Mayoress Isabella Lupton family was reportedly presented at Court by the Countess of Harewood, Princess Mary's mother-in-law.

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On 23 August 1933, as one of the "great figures of Yorkshire", Hugh Lupton family was presented to King George V and Queen Mary at Leeds Town Hall.

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69.

Frank Lupton family's eldest daughter Olive was born at Newton Grove and grew up at Rockland on the Newton Park estate, a residential development on Lupton family land in Potternewton.

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Lupton family was educated at Roedean School and was accepted to study at the University of Cambridge but remained at home with her father.

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In 1909, Olive Lupton family was a member of the executive committee of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs.

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72.

Lupton family volunteered at Stead Hostel, a home in Leeds for working women and girls supported by her father.

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73.

Lupton family was co-pilot on Prince Philip's two-month tour of South America in 1962.

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74.

Lupton family wished to enter the family business, but as women were excluded, she travelled for many years in South America and Canada.

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75.

Lupton family never married, but on her return to England, set up home, a sort of Boston marriage, in Chelsea with Enid Moberly Bell, the daughter and biographer of The Times editor Charles Frederic Moberly Bell.

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From June 1915, Anne Lupton family was the secretary of both the Leeds General Hospital Committee and the organising secretary of the 2nd Northern General Hospital at Beckett's Park.

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77.

Anne and her uncle Charles Lupton family were guests when King George V visited the Beckett's Park Military Hospital on 27 September 1915.

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78.

Anne Lupton family was the founder and organiser of the London Housing Centre.

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79.

Lupton family collected the material for Moberly Bell's biography of Octavia Hill.

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80.

Eldest son of Henry Lupton family, Geoffrey Lupton family, was a significant figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Lupton family apprenticed himself to Ernest Gimson, described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers".

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82.

Lupton family Hall was built in 1911 at Bedales School which Lupton family and his siblings had attended.

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83.

Lupton family largely financed the project and commissioned Gimson to design the building.

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The 1923 volume Newnham College, Cambridge University War Work records that during the First World War Barbara and her second cousin Anne Lupton family worked for the war effort; Barbara for the Ministry of Munitions Welfare Department from 1915 to 1919 and Anne for the Leeds Pension Commission as honorary assistant secretary.

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85.

Lupton family shared his love of art with architect Sydney Decimus Kitson.

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86.

Lupton family is referenced in a telegram sent by Noel Middleton to Francis Martineau Lupton on the death of Major Francis Ashford Lupton on the Western Front in 1917.

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Darnton Lupton family's grandson, Alan Cecil Lupton family was born in Leeds and graduated from Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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