James Lupton, Baron Lupton

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lupton
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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 October 2015
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1955-06-15) 15 June 1955 (age 68)
NationalityBritish
Known forFormer 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

  1. ^ "Cabinet Office urged to investigate fresh Tory 'cash for honours' scandal". openDemocracy. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  2. ^ "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. ^ "James R. C. Lupton". Greenhill. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ^ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 7.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Lord Lupton: parliamentary career". parliament.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "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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