Sixteenth century The earliest recorded member of the Leeds branch of the family is Thomas Lupton of
Holbeck whose children included a daughter, Margaret (born 1599) and a son, Thomas (born 1628) who was a scholar at
Leeds Grammar School and admitted as a
sizar to
St John's College, Cambridge in 1648. He became a
minister.
Clergy, farmers, clothiers and merchants Francis Lupton (1658–1717) married Esther Midgeley of
Breary, daughter of Ralph, a
yeoman farmer. They married at
Adel Church, near Leeds in 1688. Francis Lupton was appointed clerk at
Leeds Parish Church on 31 August 1694. They had nine children.
Charterhouse School registers record the marriage of Sarah, the only daughter of Francis Lupton of Lisbon in 1788. William's second son, William II (1732–1782) boarded at Sedbergh School and attended
St John's College, Cambridge. He became an assistant master at Leeds Grammar School and was ordained to pursue a ministry in the church at
Headingley, near Leeds. His son, the Rev John Lupton (died 1844), held an
M.A. from
Trinity College, Cambridge. Lupton sat on the committee for the Leeds
cloth halls, regulating their activities. In 1774 the leading merchants organised the construction of the
3rd White Cloth Hall. A
trade directory of 1790 lists
Lupton & Company as Merchants in
the Leylands. Arthur Lupton married Olive Rider, the only daughter of David Rider in 1773. She brought a £5,000
dowry to the marriage. Her father had substantial land holdings in
Mabgate and the Leylands between North Street and Wade Lane. Lupton and his wife inherited a life interest in the land after Rider's death, after which the land passed to their sons, William and Arthur.
Next generation Rider's grandson William Lupton (1777–1828) inherited 5/8ths of the estate, and his brother Arthur, 3/8ths. They held the estate as
tenants in common, but in 1811 divided the property. William took "Town End" which included his father's dressing mill built in 1788, warehouses, the
tenter garth stretching to Wade Lane and a substantial house. Its insured assets included a warehouse, counting house, packing shop, machinery and tools for dressing cloth, a hot pressing shop and a steam engine. The property consisted of a woollen mill and reservoir, a substantial house and outbuildings. William, who married Ann, the daughter of tobacconist John Darnton, shared responsibility for the business with his brother, Arthur II (1782–1824). Trade was unpredictable; losses were made in 1806 but 1809 showed a recovery. In 1819, William formed a partnership with his nephew David Rider; but Rider's share of £1,000 made him very much the junior as Lupton's share was in excess of £38,000. William Lupton became entangled with the estate of his wife's grandfather, Nathan Rider. Winding up Rider's assets while providing an income for his widow and children ultimately took 15 years. John Luccock, their cousin, sought to expand the business in
New Orleans in 1822, but was forced to give up a year later. The company's South American trade opened up again, albeit with difficulties in Peru. During the 1820s the business made little profit and Arthur Lupton, the "travelling" partner, reportedly shot himself while suffering from a fever in Paris in 1824. He left a wife, also named Ann, to bring up four children alone. William Lupton died in 1828 leaving a wife, ten children and extensive debts. He owed Becketts Bank more than £13,000 and more than £15,000 to his father-in-law. The Lupton widows maintained their social status and living standards with their own personal estates and by developing their inherited urban landholdings. William's widow Ann, a woman of "considerable initiative and skill", maintained the family business with her sons Darnton, Francis and Arthur. The sole executrix of her husband's will, she set about developing the land. She laid out Merrion Street in Leeds with plots for terraced houses and Belgrave Street with larger plots and a garden square. She retired to
Gledhow Mount in the proto suburb of
Potternewton in 1858 where she died aged 81 in 1865. In 1897, Merrion Street Mill was replaced by the
Grand Arcade, developed by the Lupton family under the auspices of the New Briggate Arcade Co ltd. In 1901, another shopping parade called "Roswells" was built on North Street (demolished for construction of
inner ring road in 1967).
Religion, politics and philanthropy Originally Anglicans, by the early 19th century the Luptons were Dissenters, part of a close group of established merchant families who belonged to the
Unitarian congregation of
Mill Hill Chapel which included the Luptons, Oates, Bischoff and Stansfield families who were subsequently joined by
new money, the Marshalls, the Kitsons and radicals such as
Samuel Smiles. Their denominational loyalty was mirrored by their political leanings; mostly, they were
Whigs and later
Liberals. They supported the New Subscription Library, set up in the early 19th century, with a "mildly whiggish character" as a counter to the Anglican,
Tory tone of the
Leeds Library. and members of the family subscribed to the building fund of the
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, a
learned society founded in 1819, which established
Leeds City Museum. Women's’ Liberal AssociationArthur Lupton II (1782–1824) was the father of Unitarian minister Arthur Lupton (1819–1867) whose son,
Arnold Lupton, was Liberal
MP for
Sleaford from 1906 to 1910. Arnold Lupton's wife, Jessie (1859–1938) was involved in political life and active in the Leeds branch of the
National Anti-Vivisection Society. She was
presented at Court in 1906. Joseph Lupton was President of Manchester New College, London (now
Harris Manchester College, Oxford) from 1881 to 1886.
William's descendants , Arthur Lupton's home from 1866
Arthur Lupton William III's children included Arthur (1809–1889) who moved to Newton Hall in Potternewton which he owned from the early 1840s. He subdivided some of the estate and Newton Grove was built in the 1850s. He married Jane Crawford on 25 April 1866 and moved to The Elms, which was given its original name,
Headingley Castle.
Darnton Lupton of the
Legion of Honour and Mayor of Leeds Darnton Lupton (1806–1873) lived at
Potternewton Hall from the 1830s. He was the
Mayor of Leeds in 1844 and a magistrate. He was a director of the Bank of Leeds. Darnton Lupton 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. He was a member of the welcoming party that greeted
Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert who opened the town hall on 7 September 1858. He was created a
Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour by
Napoleon III for the
Exhibit of Cloths in the
Paris Exhibition of 1855. Darnton and Francis Lupton became co-owners of the Newton Hall estate when their brother sold it in 1870. He married his first cousin, Sarah Darnton Luccock (1806–1834), daughter of John Luccock, who died shortly after the birth in 1833 of Kate, their only child. He then married Anna Jane Busk (1813–1888), granddaughter of
Sir Wadsworth Busk at
St Peter's Church, Bradford in 1838. Anna Lupton joined her cousin
Lord Houghton and sister-in-law
Frances Lupton in support of the
North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women.
Francis Lupton III Francis III (1813–1884) was educated at Leeds Grammar School. He was 15 when his father died, but had already acquired an extensive knowledge of the cloth trade. He 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. He was chairman of the finance committee of the Yorkshire College of Science, created in 1874. In 1847 he married
Frances Greenhow, niece of writers and reformers
Harriet and
James Martineau. A lifelong Unitarian, she was the honorary secretary and "driving force" behind the
Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education from 1871 to 1885 and the Leeds representative of the Ladies' Educational Association for the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women. In 1875 she chaired a meeting of both organisations to form the committee that raised funds to start
Leeds Girls' High School. She was the school council's vice-president until 1891. Frances belonged to the Education for Girls Committee of the
Royal Society of Arts. Francis and Frances Lupton lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847, acquiring the
freehold in 1860. It was where their children were born. By 1870, Francis and his brother Darnton had acquired the adjacent Newton Hall estate from their brother Arthur. They developed the land to create the Newton Park Estate. By 1860, Francis and Frances had moved to Beechwood, a
Georgian mansion and farm in Roundhay. Their sons, Frank, Arthur, Charles, and Hugh held some of Leeds' most important public offices. Arthur married Harriet Ashton and Charles married her sister Katharine whose brother was
Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde. The
1891 United Kingdom census records that the widow Frances Lupton lived at Beechwood with a staff of servants, including a
lady's maid, gardeners, coachmen, grooms and a
farm bailiff who lived in cottages on the estate. Following the death of Frances in 1892, Her eldest son Francis’s fellow Liberal politician
Rowland Barran, son of
Sir John Barran lived in Beechwood until WW1.
Joseph Lupton William III's son Joseph (1816–1894), a committed
Liberal was on the executive of the
National Reform Union. He was the president of the
British and Foreign Unitarian Association in 1876–77, president from 1881 until 1886 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. Lupton was a passionate
anti-slavery campaigner, joining with the minister of Mill Hill Chapel,
Charles Wicksteed and his cousin Harriet Lupton, in being admirers of the campaigner
William Lloyd Garrison, an advocate of immediate abolition. Garrison was a guest at his home in July 1877. He supported the
campaign for votes for women, sitting on the committee for the
National Society for Women's Suffrage. Joseph married Eliza Buckton (1818–1901) in 1842. Their son, Henry (1850–1932), of Lyndhurst, North Grange rd, Headingley a cloth merchant, married Clara Taylor (1860–1897). They had five surviving children. John Lupton (1822–1892) of Moorlands, Headingley, married Mary Buckton (1828–1914) in 1858. Their son Edgar (1867–1957)
Fettes College, cloth merchant, President of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce in 1921. Elizabeth Lupton (1819–1882) married Joshua Buckton (1819–1895) in 1861. This was the third marriage between Buckton and Lupton siblings.
Alan Lupton Darnton's son Alan (1846–1918) grew up at
Potternewton Hall. He married Emma Buckton (1849–1938) in 1872 in Leeds. He was a
Justice of the Peace, woollen manufacturer and Chairman of Messrs H.R. Baines & Co, proprietors of the
Daily Graphic,
The Graphic and
Bystander magazine. He enjoyed
carriage driving. During the
Boer War and the
First World War, he supplied horses to the Commonwealth Shipping Committee and other goods for the
war effort. He died at his home, Highfield, in
Ripon. His only son was Alan Cecil Lupton.
Kate Lupton (Baroness von Schunck) Darnton's only daughter, Kate (1833–1913) grew up at Potternewton Hall. She was a wealthy woman with an interest in the Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education. An original member of the council, in 1908, she was on its management committee. She was a member of the committee that established
Leeds Girls' High School. She volunteered at the Leeds Ladies' Association for the Care and Protection of Friendless Girls. She supported
Mill Hill Chapel,
Leeds Infirmary and the
University of Leeds. Her son John Edward Schunk (1869–1940) renounced his title before the First World War. His son was composer
Christian Darnton. Kate Schunck was invited to the
coronation of King George V in 1911. She died at Gledhow Wood aged 80 on 16 May 1913. Francis Martineau Lupton (1848–1921), known as Frank, was Francis III's eldest son. He attended Leeds Grammar School and
Trinity College, Cambridge where he read history before entering the family business. From 1870 to 1880, he was a member of the
Leeds Rifles. From the 1880s, Wm. Lupton & Co moved from being merchants to manufacturing in response to the restructuring of the economics of cloth making. The company acquired other mills and power looms in
Pudsey and converted the mills to be driven by electricity. They took advantage of new sources of wool from the Americas and Australia. The textile mills were on Whitehall Road, Leeds. In 1880, Frank Lupton married Harriet Albina Davis (1850–1892), daughter of clergyman
Thomas Davis. A Liberal, he broke from
Gladstone over
Home Rule and became a
Liberal Unionist. In 1895 he became an
alderman on
Leeds City Council. He was an alderman until 1916. Frank Lupton was interested in the welfare of the poor and, impressed by social reformer
Octavia Hill, worked to improve poor working class housing. From 1896, for ten years, he chaired the council's Unhealthy Areas Committee addressing the legacy of slum housing. Led by Lupton, the committee cleared the York Street and Quarry Hill areas of almost 4,000 buildings and organised new housing. He opposed proposals to build tenements for rehousing triggering his resignation as chairman. Later he chaired the council's Improvement and Finance Committees. His three sons boarded at
Rugby School after which they attended
Trinity College, Cambridge. All three died in the Great War. Captain Maurice Lupton was
killed in action by a sniper bullet in the trenches at Lille on 19 June 1915. Lieutenant Lionel Martineau Lupton was wounded,
mentioned in dispatches twice and, after recovering, was killed in the
Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Major Francis Ashford Lupton 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. After their deaths, Lupton turned his family home, Rockland, A generous benefactor, Frank Lupton 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. He held the post for 16 years, then returned to the council, promoting co-operation between the university and industry, especially the Clothworkers Company. Arthur married Harriet Ashton, daughter of
Thomas Ashton, with whom he had two daughters: Elinor Gertrude (1886–1979) and Elizabeth (Bessie, 1888–1977). His wife died shortly after giving birth to Bessie. Their second cousin,
Beatrix Potter, sent them her own hand-drawn watercolour Christmas cards; examples from 1890 to 1895 have survived. His elder son Thomas Lupton (1884–1896) was sent to
Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire, where there was an outbreak of
scarlet fever in March 1896. In 1908, Elinor Lupton was awarded an
M.A. from
Newnham College, Cambridge before returning to Leeds. There, she began her long association with LGHS, when she joined the governing body and served in various positions from 1915 until she retired in 1969. in 1939, when the school’s finances were in a critical condition, she guaranteed a bank overdraft; in 1945, she donated £12,000 to establish a trust fund, laying the foundation for GSAL’s bursary fund today. Both sisters served as
V.A.D. nurses in France during the Great War. Their brother,
Major Arthur Michael Lupton (1885–1929) survived the war. In 1919, he married his first cousin Francis Ashford Lupton's widow Dorothy. They had a son, Thomas Michael (Tom, 1920–2008). A
riding accident with the
Bramham Moor Hunt in 1928 resulted in Arthur Michael Lupton's death the following year. Tom was educated at
Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was co-founder of LM Funiture (Lupton Morton), a visionary manufacturer of flat-pack modern furniture in the 1950s and 60s best known for their Campus furniture range and mail order operation based at
Wallingford, Oxfordshire. He began studies at the
Architectural Association in London after the Second World War and it was here that he met John Morton MBE (1919–2017). In 1969 the company was acquired by Ryman Conran, the brief partnership of
Ryman stationery and
Terence Conran and the Campus range was on sale at
Habitat until the late 70s. Elinor Lupton was awarded an honorary
LLD for services to Leeds University in 1945 after chairing the Women's Halls Committee for 23 years. The Lupton Residences were named after her and her father.Her father, in 1910, and her uncle Charles Lupton, in 1919, were both granted honorary doctorates. Elinor was a
J.P. and in 1942–3, was the
Lady Mayoress for Leeds' first female Lord Mayor,
Jessie Beatrice Kitson. The women hosted visits from
royalty, including the
Princess Royal, her husband
Lord Harewood, the
Duchess of Kent and
Lady Mountbatten. Elinor and Bessie volunteered with the Leeds
Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) during the war. In 1951 the Lupton sisters donated land to expand the campus of Leeds University. They were members of The University of Leeds Ladies' Club; holding meetings at their home, Beechwood, and were entertained at
Harewood House in 1954 at the invitation of the Princess Royal, the club's patron. The sisters ran a rare-breed goat farm at Beechwood. In the 1970s, the sisters placed a non-build
covenant in the ownership deeds to preserve open grassland on Asket Hill, part of the family's Beechwood estate. After Elinor's death, Leeds Girls' High School acquired a
Grade II listed former church and renamed it the
Elinor Lupton Centre.
Sir Charles Lupton Charles Lupton (1855–1935), Francis III's fourth son was educated at Leeds Grammar School,
Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he read history. He qualified as a solicitor in 1881 practising mainly at
Dibb & Co, which became
Dibb Lupton. In 1888 he married his brother's sister in law, Katharine Ashton who was one of the founders of the Leeds Ladies Luncheon Club in 1923. He 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. By 1921, he had retired but remained on the board. He played host to
Princess Mary when she visited the Infirmary in October 1922. He was First Vice-president of
Yorkshire Cancer Research from 1925 to his death. He was a member of the Court and Council of the university and chairman of the Law Committee. His daughter, Frances Grace Lupton (1893–1937) attended
Prior's Field School and
Somerville College, Oxford and was training as a solicitor in 1918 before being awarded an
MA in 1920. His only surviving son Captain
Charles Roger Lupton was killed in action in 1918. In 1915–1916, while Lord Mayor of Leeds, Lupton raised money to enlarge the
military hospital at
Chapel Allerton. He was granted the
Freedom of the City in 1926. He 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. He lived at Carr Head in Roundhay and left his art collection to the City of Leeds in 1935.
Hugh Lupton Hugh Lupton (1861–1947), Francis III's fifth son attended Rugby School before
University College, Oxford, reading modern history. He was apprenticed to
Hathorn Davey, makers of heavy pumping machinery, in 1881 and rose to be managing director only to see the company taken over by
Sulzer in the
Great Depression. He was a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Director of Ruo Estates, Limited. He sat on the Roundhay and
Seacroft Rural District Council and, for a year, was chair. When the RDC became a ward of the city in 1913, he was elected to Leeds City Council, serving for many years. During most of this time he was Chair of the Electricity Committee. In 1926, he was Lord Mayor of Leeds, with his wife Isabella as Lady Mayoress. On 23 August 1933 Hugh Lupton was presented to
King George V and
Queen Mary at Leeds Town Hall. Hugh Lupton's sons survived the Great War; surgeon Charles Athelstane (1897–1977), studied at
Wellington College and
Trinity College, Cambridge and wrote a book, "The Lupton Family in Leeds". Hugh Ralph Lupton
OBE (1893–1983), was also educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Joyce, sister of the author
Arthur Ransome. Their son Arthur Ralph Ransome Lupton (1924–2009) was educated at Rugby and Cambridge. His brother Francis G. H. Lupton (1921–2006) was educated at
Radley College and Trinity College, Cambridge and a third brother, Geoffrey Charles Martineau Lupton (1930–2019) was educated at Rugby and
Merton College, Oxford. He married Colina, daughter of Sir Raibeart MacDougall. Hugh's family includes performer
Hugh Lupton and author
Rosamund Lupton.
Olive Middleton (née Lupton) Frank Lupton's eldest daughter Olive (1881–1936) was born at Newton Grove and grew up at Rockland on the Newton Park estate, a residential development on Lupton land in Potternewton. She was educated at
Roedean School and was accepted to study at the
University of Cambridge but remained at home with her father. In 1909, Olive Lupton was a member of the executive committee of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs. She volunteered at Stead Hostel, a home in Leeds for working women and girls supported by her father. In 1910, she was honorary secretary of the West Riding Ladies' Club. In 1914, Olive Lupton married solicitor
Noel Middleton who subsequently became a director of William Lupton & Co. During the First World War, she was a
V.A.D. nurse at
Gledhow Hall, the home of her second cousin, Lady Airedale whose daughter
the Hon. Doris Kitson and her sister-in-law, Gertrude Middleton also volunteered. During this time, her husband was fighting on the
Western Front. Olive supported the Leeds Ladies' Association for the Care and Protection of Friendless Girls. In 1932, the association's annual meeting was held at Beechwood at the invitation of her cousins, the Misses Lupton. In 1933, Olive Middleton was a member of the fundraising committee for Leeds General Infirmary's Appeal. Its patron was the
Princess Royal to whom Olive played host. Other family members of the committee included
Jessie Kitson and Elinor Lupton who launched the appeal. In February 1935, Mrs Noel Middleton was elected as a governor of Leeds
YWCA at the annual meeting. Following her death from
peritonitis in 1936, her descendants inherited trust funds established by her father. Noel Middleton's family sold William Lupton & Co to
Pudsey textiles firm
AW Hainsworth in 1958. The Middletons' eldest son, Christopher Maurice (born 1915), changed his surname from Middleton to Lupton. Their youngest son,
Oxford-educated pilot,
Peter (1920–2010), is the grandfather of
Catherine, Princess of Wales,
Philippa Charlotte Matthews, and
James William Middleton. He was co-pilot on
Prince Philip's two-month tour of South America in 1962.
Anne Muriel Lupton Francis Martineau's younger daughter, Anne, (1888–1967) attended
Prior's Field School and
Newnham College at
Cambridge University. In the 1920s, Anne and her cousin Elinor Lupton were members of the
Classical Association. She wished to enter the family business, but as women were excluded, she travelled for many years in South America and Canada. She never married, but on her return to England, set up home, a
Boston marriage, in
Chelsea with Enid Moberly Bell, the daughter and biographer of
The Times editor
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. Moberly Bell was vice-chair of the
Lyceum Club for female artists and writers and the first headmistress of
Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green. In 1937 Anne Lupton financed the purchase of the
Georgian property, Elm House subsequently renamed Lupton House in which the school is located. At
Westminster Abbey on 17 October 2017,
Lord Chartres "celebrated Anne's support of Lady Margaret School". From June 1915, Anne Lupton was the secretary of the Leeds General Hospital Committee and the organising secretary of the 2nd Northern General Hospital at
Beckett Park. Anne and her uncle Charles Lupton were guests when
George V visited the Beckett Park Military Hospital on 27 September 1915. In March 1920, she was awarded the
M.B.E. for her voluntary work for the Leeds Local
War Pensions Committee. Anne's college friend Dorothy Davison married her brother, Francis Ashford Lupton in August 1914. A leading welfare campaigner, by 1935 Anne had founded the London Housing Centre and worked as its organiser. In 1938, she organised an exhibition for the centenary of
Octavia Hill's birth which was visited at her request by
Queen Mary. Other visitors who met with Anne at the centre were
George V,
Edward VIII and
the Queen Mother. Lupton collected the material for Moberly Bell's biography of Octavia Hill.
Geoffrey Lupton Geoffrey Lupton (1882–1949), eldest son of Henry Lupton (died 1932), was a significant figure in the
Arts and Crafts Movement. He apprenticed himself to
Ernest Gimson, described by the art critic
Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Lupton Hall was built at
Bedales School in 1911. Lupton and his siblings had attended the school. He largely financed the project and commissioned Gimson to design the building.
Barbara Lupton (Lady Bullock) Henry Lupton's daughter, Barbara (1891–1974), grew up in
Headingley, and attended Bedales School,
Newnham College, Cambridge (1910–1913) and the
London School of Economics (1913–1914) where she obtained a
social science qualification. The 1923 volume
Newnham College, Cambridge University War Work records that during the
First World War she worked for the
war effort; Barbara for the
Ministry of Munitions Welfare Department from 1915 to 1919. Barbara met
Christopher Bullock through her cousin, Hugh Ralph Lupton (1893–1983) who, alongside Bullock, was a member of the
First and Third Trinity Boat Club. Barbara and Bullock were married in London in April 1917.
Agnes and Norman Darnton Lupton Siblings Agnes (1874–1950) and Norman Darnton Lupton (1875–1953), were the grandchildren of Darnton Lupton. Their parents were William Walter Lupton (1844–1913) and Lucy Hannah Chadwick (1845–1931). William was Director of Joshua Buckton & co. Their maternal grandfather was Charles Chadwick M.D. (1815–1886), President of the
British Medical Association, physician to Leeds General Infirmary for twenty-eight years. The siblings left a substantial bequest to
Leeds Art Gallery in 1952. Norman, who attended
Marlborough College and
Trinity College, Cambridge was a mechanical engineer and artist. He shared his love of art with architect, Sydney Decimus Kitson (1871–1937). Norman held the rank of
Major during the
First World War. Their donation to Leeds Art Gallery included works by
John Sell Cotman,
Thomas Girtin and
J. M. W. Turner. Their eldest brother was William George Lupton (1871–1911) of
The Green, Bromyard, Herefordshire. Former. He studied Marlborough College.
Alan Cecil Lupton – 3rd row, 4th from right Darnton Lupton's grandson, Alan Cecil Lupton (1873–1949) was born in Leeds and attended Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge; and graduated from Cambridge University. In 1905, he married Mary Emma, daughter of
Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 6th Baronet and sister of his fellow
Old Etonian,
Sir Merrik Burrell, 7th Baronet. Her maternal grandfather was
Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet. Alan's sister, Alice Hilda Lupton (1876–1953) married Walter Lyulph Johnson (1872–1938), a fellow Old Etonian and grandson of
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet whose first cousin,
Gertrude Bell, referenced Alan in her published letters. Alan was a
J.P. and lived at Ainderby Hall, near
Northallerton where he farmed. During the
First World War, he and his father acquired horses for the
Army Remount Service. In 1934, Alan's only daughter, Marjorie, married Godfrey Vyvyan Stopford, grandson of
James Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown. ==Legacy==