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Psalm 51: Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam ("Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness"[2]
). Below is an heraldic escutcheon displaying his arms
Arms of Roger Lupton: Argent, on a cheveron between three wolves' heads erased sable three lilies argent, on a chief gules a Tau cross between two escallops or[3]
Lupton's Tower, Eton College, built 1514–20, together with Lupton's Chapel[4]

Roger Lupton (1456–27 February

Provost of Eton College (1503/4–1535).[6][7][8]

Family origins

The Lupton family originated at the manor of Lupton, near Kirkby Lonsdale then in Westmorland, in present day Cumbria.[9] The name was first recorded in the 15th century.

Career

Lupton was born in 1456 in the parish of

Doctor of Canon Law in 1504.[12][13]

In 1484, shortly after his graduation, Lupton served in the

Provost of Eton College,[14] near Windsor, which post he retained until 1535. In 1509/10 he was occupying the post of Master of St. Anthony's Hospital, St Benet Fink in the City of London, but the exact date of his appointment is not known.[15]
In 1475 this Hospital, previously an independent foundation, had been annexed and appropriated to the College of St. George at Windsor Castle, and thus Lupton's appointment as Master was by the king.

Founds Sedbergh School

In 1525, Dr Roger Lupton began to provide finance for the founding of

founder's kin[17]
- Lupton having had no children himself - and that they be sons of men with "lands truly purchased whose mansions were sufficienty built". A document held in the archives of St John's records that the scholars were:

"to be chosen from the grammar scole of Sedbare, wher the sayd Roger Lupton was borne and hath foundyd a perpetuall chauntry and the sayd grammar scole indued sufficiently with lyvelode and lands truly and suerly purchased and manciones sufficiently bylded".

As per the founder's kin clause, Lupton's relative,

Anglican church.[18][19][20][21]

After land had been purchased and a school building constructed, almost certainly on the site of the present School Library, the foundation deed was signed, which bound the School to St John's College, Cambridge, which thenceforth had the power to appoint Headmasters. In 1535 two further scholarships to Cambridge were established by Lupton, with provision for two Fellowships also.

Death and burial

He died on 27 February

side chapel (within the main College Chapel) which was commissioned by Lupton. His monumental brass survives at Eton, showing him dressed as a Canon of Windsor wearing a long robe with a cross.[22] (Illustrated in Lack, Stuchfield and Whittemore, Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, p. 86; brass rubbing at Ashmolean Museum, ref: "Buckinghamshire 2/106"[23]). Lupton's Tower, a bell tower built during his time as Provost, is also named after him. His death is commemorated each year on 27 February at Eton on Threepenny Day which he founded.[24]

Lupton coat-of-arms

Lupton was chaplain to both Kings

Saint Anthony of Egypt and thus probably referred to his mastership of St Anthony's Hospital. The wolves were canting references to his surname from the Latin Lupus, "a wolf", and Sable, three lilies argent, the same arrangement, is the base part of the arms of Eton College. The crest – a wolf's head erased -[30] was borne by Lupton's collateral descendants. Sir John Burke described the coat-of-arms in 1844 as a "Wolf's head and neck erased sable" from the arms granted to the Lupton family's ancestor, Roger Lupton by Henry VII.[31][32]

See also

References

  1. ^ the cross of the Order of the Garter, as is stated in certain sources
  2. ^ Text per King James's Bible
  3. ^ Burke, Sir John Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. Bohn. Retrieved 19 August 2020. Lupton (Yorkshire; granted temp, Henry VII.) The same Arms and Crest [as above - Lupton (Thame, co. Oxford)]
  4. ^ Historic England. "Eton College (1290278)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  5. ^ According to a book about Lupton by R. Cann (2005), Lupton died in 1540.
  6. ^ Lupton, Joseph Hurst (ed.). "Dr Roger Lupton". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2015. It seems certain that the provost of Eton (Dr R. Lupton) before 23 March 1510 resigned the prebend of St. Michael, Warwick, being then styled king's chaplain (ib. i. 967),
  7. ^ "Henry VIII: May 1509, 1–14 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509–1514. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920". British History Online. Retrieved 23 January 2013. The King's chaplains: Mr. Hobbys, Mr. Cosyn, Mr. Vaghan, Mr. Lupton, Mr. Lychfeld, Mr. Honywood, Mr. West, brother to the lord Dalaware, Mr. Wolsey, Mr. Oxenbrygge, Mr. Esterfeld, Mr. Fyssher, Mr. Rawlyns, Mr. Teylour, Mr. Hatton "profyce of Cambryge," Mr Petir of ye Closet
  8. ISBN 9781108058599
    . Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  9. ^ Green, Carole (13 November 2015). "Looking for Luptons". BBC York and North Yorkshire. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  10. ^ "(Dr) Roger Lupton –DNB – 1885–1900". DNB Biographies. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  11. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17203. Retrieved 23 January 2015. Lupton, Roger (1456–1540) (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  12. ^ "Lupton, Roger (LPTN483R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  13. ISBN 9781108036092
    . Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  14. ^ Wilson, Christopher (26 July 2013). The Middletons deserve a title – step forward, the Earl and Countess of Fairfax. UK Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 31 May 2016. The Luptons...... have been established in Yorkshire since the 15th century – (one of) the earliest recorded members being Roger Lupton, who became Canon of Windsor in 1500 and subsequently Provost of Eton
  15. ^ Victoria County History, Volume 1, London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark, ed. William Page, London, 1909, pp. 581–584: Alien Houses: Hospital of St Anthony'[1]
  16. ^ "Sedbergh School Foundation" (PDF). Sedbergh School Foundation Inc. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  17. ISBN 9781108058599
    . Retrieved 22 January 2017. Preference was to be given for: a) founder's kin b) natives of ....
  18. ISBN 978-1108036092
    . Retrieved 22 January 2015. LUPTON William.. admitted sizar age 17 at St Johns....son of William of Yorkshire...born at Leeds...school, Sedbergh, Matric 1750, BA 1754... ordained deacon 1755....died 1782 (Scott-Mayor III. 594.)
  19. ^ "The Admission Register of the Manchester School, Volume II". Manchester School. 1866. p. 56. Retrieved 23 January 2015. The Rev. William Lupton, Headingley, was usher (assistant master) of Leeds Grammar
  20. ^ "History and Heritage". Sedbergh School. Retrieved 23 January 2015. Founded in 1525 by the Provost of Eton- Roger Lupton
  21. ^ Lupton, C. A. (1965). "The Lupton Family in Leeds". Wm. Harrison & Son, 1965. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  22. ^ Saul, Nigel, St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century, p.112 [2]
  23. ^ "Ashmolean".
  24. ^ Past, Papers (20 April 1914). "THREEPENNY DAY AT ETON". Northern Advocate. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  25. ^ Lupton, Joseph Hurst (ed.). "Dr Roger Lupton". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2015. It seems certain that the provost of Eton (Dr R.Lupton) before 23 March 1510 resigned the prebend of St. Michael, Warwick, being then styled king's chaplain (ib. i. 967),
  26. ^ "Henry VIII: May 1509, 1–14 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509–1514. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920". British History Online. Retrieved 23 January 2013. The King's chaplains: Mr. Hobbys, Mr. Cosyn, Mr. Vaghan, Mr. Lupton, Mr. Lychfeld, Mr. Honywood, Mr. West, brother to the lord Dalaware, Mr. Wolsey, Mr. Oxenbrygge, Mr. Esterfeld, Mr. Fyssher, Mr. Rawlyns, Mr. Teylour, Mr. Hatton "profyce of Cambryge," Mr Petir of ye Closet
  27. ^ BOEREMA, Jurgen (22 December 2010). "Local author shares work". Washington Daily News. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  28. ^ (?) Possibly bells, another symbol of Saint Anthony, of which two were often shown suspended from the cross member of a Tau cross
  29. ^ 'Armorial Index', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 397–414 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp397-414
  30. ^ Berry, William (1828). "Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2". Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  31. ^ Burke, Sir John Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. Bohn. Retrieved 19 August 2020. Lupton (Yorkshire; granted temp, Henry VII.) The same Arms and Crest [as above - Lupton (Thame, co. Oxford)]
  32. ^ Berry, William (1828). "Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2". Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Retrieved 25 January 2015. ... borne by Harry Lupton Esq.,... 1825...
  • Stephen Wright, ‘Lupton, Roger (1456–1540)’,
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    , Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2006, accessed 28 April 2007. (subscription access)
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Preceded by
Henry Bost
Provost of Eton

1504–1535 		Succeeded by
Roger Aldrich
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