James Lupton, Baron Lupton Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Lupton
Honorific-Suffix:CBE
Birth Date:15 June 1955
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:6 October 2015
Life Peerage
Known For:Former Chairman of Greenhill Europe and Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party
Nationality:British

James Roger Crompton Lupton, Baron Lupton, (born 15 June 1955) is a former Chairman of Greenhill Europe and Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party, having donated circa £3.3 million to the party.[1]

He was created a life peer taking the title Baron Lupton, of Lovington in the County of Hampshire on 6 October 2015.[2]

He was educated at Sedbergh School and Lincoln College, Oxford.[3] He was previously Deputy Chairman of Baring Brothers International Ltd until the bank collapsed in 1995.[4]

Lupton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours.

In 2016, then prime minister David Cameron re-appointed Lupton to the board of the British Museum for a further four-year term, ending 11 June 2020.[5]

Since July 2019, Lupton has sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer.[6] However, he reportedly votes with the Conservative party bloc.[7]

He is estimated to be worth £130 million.[8] Lupton is also a member of Brooks's and the London Capital Club.

Notes and References

  1. News: Cabinet Office urged to investigate fresh Tory ‘cash for honours’ scandal . 3 December 2019. openDemocracy. en . 29 December 2022.
  2. Web site: notice 2414065. The London Gazette.
  3. ‘LUPTON, James Roger Crompton’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  4. Web site: James R. C. Lupton. Greenhill. 27 August 2015.
  5. Web site: Prime minister reappoints three trustees to the board of the British Museum. gov.uk. 29 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221229182932/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-reappoints-three-trustees-the-british-museum. 29 December 2022. live.
  6. Web site: Lord Lupton: parliamentary career. parliament.uk. 29 December 2022.
  7. News: Mason . Rowena . One in 10 Tory peers have given more than £100,000 to party . 29 December 2022. The Guardian. en . 29 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221229183501/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/one-in-10-tory-peers-have-given-more-than-100000-to-party. 29 December 2022. live.
  8. Web site: Cameron to give peerage to fat-cat banker crony who gave £2.5m to the Tories. Daily Mirror. 2 September 2015.