James Lupton, Baron Lupton
James Roger Crompton Lupton, Baron Lupton, (born 15 June 1955) is a former Chairman of Greenhill & Co., Greenhill Europe and Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, having donated circa £3.3 million to the party. He was created a life peer taking the title Baron Lupton, of Lovington in the County of Hampshire on 6 October 2015. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He was previously Deputy Chairman of Barings Bank, Baring Brothers International Ltd until the bank collapsed in 1995. 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. Since July 2019, Lupton has sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer. However, he reportedly votes with the Conservative party bloc. He is estimated to be worth £130 million. Lupton is al ...
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The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is always pronounced. Countries with common or ...
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