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Alan Lupton

Alan Lupton

Cloth merchant
Male 1846 - 1918  (71 years)

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  • Name Alan Lupton 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Born 15 Apr 1846  Potternewton Hall, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Census 1851  Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1871  The Harehills, Harehill Lane, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1881  Claro Villas, Bilton, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 1891  Beacon House, Scarcroft, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Census 1901  30 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    Census 1911  30 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Occupation Cloth merchant 
    Residence 1918  47 Hans Place, Knightsbridge, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Died 23 Feb 1918  Ripon, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11] 
    Probate 5 Jun 1918  London, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Siblings 5 Siblings 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father Darnton Lupton
              b. 20 Jul 1806, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Dec 1873, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Anna Jane Busk
              b. 15 Aug 1813, Islington, London Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Dec 1888, The Harehills, Harehill Lane, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 1 May 1838  Bradford Cathedral, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 

    Wife Emma Buckton
              b. 28 Jul 1849, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 20 Jul 1938, The Priory, Roehampton, Wandsworth, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 8 Oct 1872  Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 15] 
    Age at Marriage He was 26, she was 23  
    Children 
     1. Maj. Alan Cecil Lupton
              b. 1873, Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Jul 1949, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     2. Alice Hilda Lupton
              b. 8 Sep 1876, 5 Blenheim Terrace, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 8 Apr 1953, Milrighall, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     3. William Walter Lupton
              b. Abt 1880
              d. Between 1881 and 1890  (Age ~ 1 years)
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Alan Lupton was born on the 15th of April 1846 at the family home, Potternewton Hall, in Leeds, the third son of Darnton Lupton and Darnton's second wife, Anna Jane Busk.

      A note on Ancestry from user passerelledei reads as follows:
      Alan Lupton studied at the Pestalozzian School situated at 35-37 Potter Street Worksop (now the Masonic Hall). The school was founded by Benjamin Hildenmaier and based on the methods of scientific education developed by the Swiss educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. At one time, under the Principalship of Dr Ellenberger, its students included two brothers of the Khedive of Egypt. The construction of Queen Street severely impacted on the school's recreational space and it was eventually forced to close.


      Career
      Alan followed his father and grandfather into trade, becoming a cloth merchant in Leeds (in the 1881 census he is listed as a "woollen cloth merchant" but by the 1891 census he is "retired Leeds merchant", perhaps as a result of the mysterious railway accident mentioned below). The following details are taken from his obituary in The Graphic1:
      Mr Lupton...was the third son of the late Darnton Lupton, the head of a highly successful cloth firm in Leeds, which Mr Lupton joined after being educated for the Army. Endowed with great shrewdness and boundless activity, he made a fresh success of the business, from the continuance of which he was ultimately incapacitated by a railway accident. He regained health and strength from outdoor life, to which he was passionately devoted, becoming a fearless rider to hounds, an enthusiastic four-in-hand driver, and a bit of a farmer. To within a few weeks of his death he had thrown extraordinary energy into the development of a large estate in Skye belonging to his son-in-law, Mr William [sic, they meant Walter] Johnson, now on active service.

      In recent years Mr Lupton had concentrated his business energy on the affairs of this firm (HR Baines and Company), in which he had inherited a financial interest, and he joined the Board in 1907, becoming Chairman in 1917. He gave unremitting attention to the business of the firm, and in the midst of it never ceased to show an intensely human interest in everybody connected with the house. He was deeply interested in the War, doing his bit in the way of looking after remounts, which his only son - Mr Alan Cecil Lupton, now in Mesopotamia - and others had been buying in the United States for the Government. Mr Lupton was tall, spare and exceedingly handsome, and displayed all the characteristics of the typical Yorkshireman.


      Family Life
      Alan married Emma Buckton, daughter of the engineer George Buckton, on the 8th of October 1872 in Leeds. They had three children:
      1. Alan Cecil, born c. 1874, later a major in the army, who married Mary Emma Burrell
      2. Alice Hilda, born 1876 and who married Walter Lyulph Johnson.
      3. William Walter, born in 1880 but who died young

      When Alan's daughter Hilda married, Alan gifted the Strathaird Estate in Skye to Hilda and her husband Walter Lyulph Johnson.

      Death
      Alan died on the 23rd of February 1918 in Ripon. His obituary in The Bystander2 reads:
      In many widely different places the death of Mr Alan Lupton will be felt as a personal loss. On the Bench at Ripon and in the West Riding, in the Coaching Club and the Four-in-Hand Club, and in the hunting field - in all these he will be sorely missed. A man of distinguished charm of manner, urbane, witty, and delightful in his conversation, and kindly in all his thoughts and actions, Mr Lupton was a man who made many friends and never an enemy....Driving his perfectly-matched teams in the Park, or riding hard to hounds in his beloved Yorkshire, Mr Lupton was an English country gentleman of the very best type. And in the country where Peel's "View-Halloa" would awaken the dead he was laid to rest last week in a little village churchyard some miles from Ripon - buried there by his own wish, so that he might "still hear the hounds coming by in the morning."


      Footnotes
      [1] Obituary in The Graphic, 2nd March 1918, page 260. NB The Graphic was owned by HR Baines, the company that Alan became the Chairman of.
      [2] Obituary in The Bystander, 6th March 1918, page 490. Like The Graphic, The Bystander was owned by HR Baines.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1851 - Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1871 - The Harehills, Harehill Lane, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 8 Oct 1872 - Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1881 - Claro Villas, Bilton, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1901 - 30 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1911 - 30 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1918 - 47 Hans Place, Knightsbridge, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 23 Feb 1918 - Ripon, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProbate - 5 Jun 1918 - London, County of London, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Alan Lupton on his coach
    Alan Lupton

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  • Sources 
    1. [S0168] GRO Birth Record, General Records Office, (gro.gov.uk), Alan Lupton.

    2. [S0129] 1851 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Darnton Lupton; Class: HO107; Piece: 2316; Folio: 157; Page: 15; GSU roll: 87536-87537, 1851.

    3. [S0137] 1871 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Darnton Lupton; Class: RG10; Piece: 4576; Folio: 55; Page: 26; GSU roll: 847252, 1871.

    4. [S0139] 1881 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Class: RG11; Piece: 4328; Folio: 18; Page: 30; GSU roll: 1342033.

    5. [S0260] 1891 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Alan Lupton; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Class: RG12; Piece: 3523; Folio: 175; Page: 11, 1891.

    6. [S0319] England and Wales Census, 1891, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Lupton family;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JXZ-83Z : 6 May 2019), Alice H Lupton in household of Alan Lupton, Scarcroft, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypas, 1891.

    7. [S0303] England and Wales Census, 1901, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Lupton; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9HV-7PX : 20 May 2019), Alan Lupton, St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast, 1901.

    8. [S0282] 1901 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk).

    9. [S0313] England and Wales Census, 1911, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Lupton;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW2T-BP2 : 16 May 2019), Alan Lupton, St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d., 1911.

    10. [S0119] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Ancestry, (ancestry.com), Alan Lupton, 1918.

    11. [S0210] The Graphic, Page 6, 2 Mar 1918.

    12. [S0234] West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Darnton Lupton; Anna Jane Busk; West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Reference Number: BDP14, 1 May 1838.

    13. [S0301] England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Lupton/Busk;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DH4-QV3 : 13 December 2014), Anne Jane Brisk, 1838; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1838, quarter 2, vol. 23, p. 143,, 1838.

    14. [S0209] West Yorkshire, Non-Confirmist Records, 1646-1985, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Alan Lupton / Emma Buckton; Mill Hill 3, 1872.

    15. [S0301] England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Buckton/Lupton; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DLZ-KNV : 13 December 2014), Emma Buckton, 1872; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1872, quarter 4, vol. 9B, p. 870, 1872.