James Lupton, Baron Lupton
The Lord Lupton | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 6 October 2015 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 June 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Former Chairman of Greenhill Europe and Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party |
James Roger Crompton Lupton, Baron Lupton, CBE (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.[5]
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.[6]
Since July 2019, Lupton has sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer.[7] However, he reportedly votes with the Conservative party bloc.[8]
He is estimated to be worth £130 million.[9] Lupton is also a member of Brooks's and the London Capital Club.
References
- ^ "Cabinet Office urged to investigate fresh Tory 'cash for honours' scandal". openDemocracy. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ "notice 2414065". The London Gazette.
- ^ ‘LUPTON, James Roger Crompton’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ^ "James R. C. Lupton". Greenhill. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 7.
- ^ "Prime minister reappoints three trustees to the board of the British Museum". gov.uk. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ "Lord Lupton: parliamentary career". parliament.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ Mason, Rowena (29 December 2022). "One in 10 Tory peers have given more than £100,000 to party". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ "Cameron to give peerage to fat-cat banker crony who gave £2.5m to the Tories". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
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