{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use British English|date=April 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} [[File:RogerLupton Died1540 MonumentalBrass EtonCollege (2).png|thumb|200px|Rubbing of monumental brass in Eton College Chapel, of Roger Lupton (d.1540). His hair displays the tonsure of a cleric. He wears the mantle of a Canon of Windsor (based in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle), displaying on his left shoulder a Cross of St George within a circle.<ref>the cross of the Order of the Garter, as is stated in certain sources</ref> A speech scroll emanating from his chest is inscribed in the Latin with the opening words of Psalm 51: ''Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam'' ("Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness"<ref>Text per King James's Bible</ref>). Below is an heraldic escutcheon displaying his arms]] [[File:LuptonArms.png|thumb|200px|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''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir John Bernard |title=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 |date=1844 |publisher=H. Bohn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y11BAAAAYAAJ&q=lupton+yorkshire+erased+wolves+head&pg=PP670 |access-date=19 August 2020 |quote=Lupton (Yorkshire; granted ''temp'', Henry VII.) The same Arms and Crest [as above - Lupton (Thame, co. Oxford)]}}</ref>]] [[File:Eton College (2) - August 5, 2007.jpg|thumb|200px|''Lupton's Tower'', Eton College, built 1514–20, together with Lupton's Chapel<ref>{{NHLE|num=1290278|desc=Eton College|accessdate=2 May 2018}}</ref>]] '''Roger Lupton''' (1456–27 February 1539/40)<ref>According to a book about Lupton by R. Cann (2005), Lupton died in 1540.</ref> was an English lawyer and cleric who served as chaplain to King Henry VII (1485–1509) and to his son King Henry VIII (1509–1547) and was appointed by the former as Provost of Eton College (1503/4–1535).<ref name="DNB"/><ref>{{cite web|title=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|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp8-24|publisher=British History Online|access-date=23 January 2013|quote=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}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Leach|first1=Athur Francis|title=Early Yorkshire Schools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK545LAP114C&q=lupton+lawyer+cleric&pg=PR41|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date= 18 April 2013| page= xli|isbn=9781108058599|access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref>

==Family origins== The Lupton family originated at the manor of Lupton, near Kirkby Lonsdale then in Westmorland, in present day Cumbria.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=Carole|title=Looking for Luptons|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2009/01/30/ann_thorpe_lupton_wdytya_feature.shtml|work=BBC York and North Yorkshire|date= 13 November 2015|access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> The name was first recorded in the 15th century.

==Career== Lupton was born in 1456 in the parish of Sedbergh, at that time situated in Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Lupton of Sedbergh.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle= Lupton, Roger |volume= 34 |last= Lupton |first= Joseph Hirst |author-link= Joseph Hirst Lupton |pages= 286=287 |year= |quote= see para 3:-....It seems certain that the provost of Eton before 23 March 1510 resigned the prebend of St. Michael, Warwick, being then styled king's chaplain....|short=1}}</ref> He is first recorded at Cambridge University in 1479, where he was a member of King's College,<ref>{{cite ODNB|last1=Wright|first1=Stephen. J.|title=Lupton, Roger (1456–1540)|chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/17203|publisher=ODNB |date= September 2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17203 |access-date=23 January 2015|quote=Lupton, Roger (1456–1540)}}</ref> a twin royal foundation with Eton College, in the governance and development of which latter he subsequently played a major role. He was admitted a Bachelor of Canon Law at Cambridge in 1484 and a Doctor of Canon Law in 1504.<ref>{{acad|id=LPTN483R|name=Lupton, Roger}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yIwSb9UO--cC&q=cambridge+alumni+william+lupton+st+john%27s&pg=PA118|publisher=Cambridge University|year= 2011 |editor-first=John |editor-last=Venn | page= 118|isbn=9781108036092|access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1484, shortly after his graduation, Lupton served in the Court of Chancery, and was later appointed Rector of Harlton in Cambridgeshire. In 1500 he succeeded Oliver Dynham (1480–1500) as a Canon of Windsor, namely as the Canon of the 7th Stall, which office he held until his death. In February 1503/4 he was elected a Fellow and then Provost of Eton College,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Christopher|title=The Middletons deserve a title – step forward, the Earl and Countess of Fairfax|date=26 July 2013|publisher=UK Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10204690/The-Middletons-deserve-a-title-step-forward-the-Earl-and-Countess-of-Fairfax.html|access-date=31 May 2016|quote=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}}</ref> 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.<ref>Victoria County History, Volume 1, ''London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark'', ed. William Page, London, 1909, pp. 581–584: [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/london/vol1/pp581-584 ''Alien Houses: Hospital of St Anthony'']</ref> 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 Sedbergh School, a Chantry School in Sedbergh, the place of his birth. A few scholars were gathered together under a Chaplain, Henry Blomeyr. Lupton's intentions were twofold: "for the maintaining and increase of learning in Christ's Church", and "for his soul's health". An agreement was made so that the chaplain and scholars should have free seats in the chancel of Sedbergh Church. Sedbergh School continues to use Lupton's coat of arms as its emblem.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sedbergh School Foundation|url=http://www.sedberghschoolfoundation.org/documents/sedbergh1525.pdf|publisher=Sedbergh School Foundation Inc.|access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref> In 1527, he established six scholarships to St John's College, Cambridge, to be awarded exclusively to boys from Sedbergh School with a preference for founder's kin<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leech |first1=A. |title=Early Yorkshire Schools |date=18 April 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK545LAP114C&q=founders+kin++sedbergh++Lupton&pg=PR45 |publisher=Cambridge University Press, 18 Apr 2013 |isbn=9781108058599 |access-date=22 January 2017 |quote=Preference was to be given for: a) founder's kin b) natives of ....}}</ref> - 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, William Lupton (1732–1782), attended Sedbergh School and then St John's College, Cambridge before being assistant master at Leeds Grammar School and ordained to pursue a ministry in the Anglican church.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Venn |first1=J. |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 1 |date=15 September 2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press, 15 Sep 2011 |isbn=978-1108036092 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yIwSb9UO--cC&pg=PA118 |access-date=22 January 2015 |quote=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.)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Admission Register of the Manchester School, Volume II|year=1866|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QttRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA56 |publisher=Manchester School| page= 56|access-date=23 January 2015|quote=The Rev. William Lupton, Headingley, was usher (assistant master) of Leeds Grammar}}</ref><ref name="History and Heritage">{{cite web|title=History and Heritage|url=http://www.sedberghschool.org/senior/Information/History-and-Heritage|publisher=Sedbergh School|access-date=23 January 2015|quote=Founded in 1525 by the Provost of Eton- Roger Lupton}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lupton |first1=C. A. |title=The Lupton Family in Leeds |year=1965 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-PQIMwEACAAJ |publisher=Wm. Harrison & Son, 1965 |access-date=22 January 2015}}</ref>

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 1539/40 and was buried in Lupton's Chapel at Eton College, a 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.<ref>Saul, Nigel, ''St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century'', p.112 [https://books.google.com/books?id=auSNtufAwnoC&dq=roger+lupton+history+of+parliament&pg=PA112]</ref> (Illustrated in Lack, Stuchfield and Whittemore, ''Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire'', p.&nbsp;86; brass rubbing at Ashmolean Museum, ref: "Buckinghamshire 2/106"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/departments/antiquities/brass/counties/Buckinghamshire.html|title = Ashmolean}}</ref>). ''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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Past|first1=Papers|title=THREEPENNY DAY AT ETON.|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NA19140420.2.8|publisher=Northern Advocate |date= 20 April 1914| page =2|access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref>

==Lupton coat-of-arms== Lupton was chaplain to both Kings Henry VII (1485–1509) and his son Henry VIII (1509–1547)<ref name="DNB"/><ref>{{cite web|title=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|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp8-24|publisher=British History Online|access-date=23 January 2013|quote=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}}</ref> and was executor of Henry VII's will.<ref>{{cite web|last1=BOEREMA|first1=Jurgen|title=Local author shares work|url=http://www.thewashingtondailynews.com/2010/12/22/local-author-shares-work/|work=Washington Daily News |date= 22 December 2010|access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref> King Henry VII granted Lupton a coat-of-arms. The arms were: ''Argent, on a cheveron between three wolves' heads erased sable three lilies argent, on a chief gules a Tau cross between two escallops<ref>(?) Possibly bells, another symbol of Saint Anthony, of which two were often shown suspended from the cross member of a Tau cross</ref> or''<ref>'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</ref> The Tau cross was a symbol of 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'' -<ref>{{cite web|last1=Berry|first1=William|title=Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfNfAAAAcAAJ&q=henry+VII++roger+lupton&pg=PT565|publisher=Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper|year= 1828|access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir John Bernard |title=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 |date=1844 |publisher=H. Bohn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y11BAAAAYAAJ&q=lupton+yorkshire+erased+wolves+head&pg=PP670 |access-date=19 August 2020 |quote=Lupton (Yorkshire; granted ''temp'', Henry VII.) The same Arms and Crest [as above - Lupton (Thame, co. Oxford)]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Berry|first1=William|title=Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfNfAAAAcAAJ&q=henry+VII++roger+lupton&pg=PT565|publisher=Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper|year= 1828|access-date=25 January 2015|quote=... borne by Harry Lupton Esq.,... 1825...}}</ref>

==See also== *Lupton family

==References== {{Reflist}} *Stephen Wright, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17203 ‘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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