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Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905) was an English schoolmaster, cleric and writer.


Life

Born at
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,
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, on 15 January 1836, he was second son of Joseph Lupton, headmaster of the Greencoat School at Wakefield, by his wife Mary Hirst, who wrote verse. Educated first at
Queen Elizabeth grammar school, Wakefield Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is an independent, public school for boys in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The school was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield (headed ...
, and then at
Giggleswick school Giggleswick School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Early school In 1499, Giggleswick School was founded on half an acre of land leased by the Prior an ...
, where he became captain, he was admitted on 3 July 1854 to a
sizar At Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined jo ...
ship at
St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...
. In 1858 he graduated B.A., with a first class in the classical tripos. After assisting at Wakefield grammar school, Lupton was appointed, in 1859, second classical master in the
City of London School , established = , closed = , type = Public school Boys' independent day school , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Alan Bird , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Ian Seaton , founder = John Carpenter , speciali ...
, then in Milk Street,
Cheapside Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St. Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank junction, where ...
; among his pupils there were Henry Palin Gurney and
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. Ordained deacon in 1859 and priest in 1860, he served as curate at St. Paul's Church,
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, N.W., and afterwards to W. Sparrow Simpson, rector of
St Matthew Friday Street St. Matthew Friday Street was a church in the City of London located on Friday Street, off Cheapside. Recorded since the 13th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, then rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. The re ...
. Proceeding M.A. in 1861, Lupton succeeded to the fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge vacated by
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on 19 March 1861. In 1864 Lupton was appointed sur-master and second mathematical master in
St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , he ...
, then in St. Paul's churchyard (from 1884 at
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). He remained sur-master for 35 years, the high masters being
Herbert Kynaston Herbert Kynaston (1809–1878) was High Master (headmaster) of St Paul's School, London, for 38 years. He was also a priest in the Church of England and a prebendary in St. Paul's Cathedral. Biography The second son of Roger Kynaston, by his ma ...
and then
Frederick William Walker Frederick William Walker (1830–1910) was an English headmaster who was successively High Master of Manchester Grammar School and St Paul's School, London. Life Walker was born in London in 1830, the son of an Irishman and educated at St Savio ...
. In 1897 Lupton became Latin master of the upper eighth and honorary librarian. Lupton was
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at Cambridge in 1887, became preacher to
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in 1890, won the Seatonian prize for a sacred poem at Cambridge in 1897, and proceeded B.D. in 1893 with a thesis on ''The Influence of Dean Colet upon the Reformation of the English Church'', and D.D. in 1896 with a dissertation on Archbishop
William Wake William Wake (26 January 165724 January 1737) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1716 until his death in 1737. Life Wake was born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He took ...
's ''Project of Union between the Gallican and Anglican Churches (1717–1720)''. He died at
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,
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, on 15 December 1905, and was buried in
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.


Works

Lupton published ''Wakefield Worthies'' in 1864. He then researched
John Colet John Colet (January 1467 – 16 September 1519) was an English Catholic priest and educational pioneer. John Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, and Dean of St Paul's Cat ...
, the founder of St Paul's School. He published for the first time the following works of Colet (with a translation and introduction, except for the first): * ''De Sacramentis Ecclesiæ'' (1867) from the MS. in the library of St. Paul's; * ''On the Hierarchies of Dionysius'' (1869); * ''Exposition of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans'' (1873); * ''Exposition of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians'' (1874); and * ''Letters to Radulphus on the Mosaic Account of the Creation, together with other Treatises'' (1876). There followed, in 1883, a translation of the letters of
Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...
to Jodocus Jonas (1519), containing the lives of Jehan Vitrier, warden of the Franciscan convent at St. Omer, and of Colet. In 1887 Lupton's major original work, ''The Life of Dean Colet'' (new edition 1909), gave an assessment of Colet's aims and career. Lupton wrote also: * ''St. John of Damascus'' in the "Lives of the Fathers for English Readers" series, 1882. * ''An Introduction to Latin Elegiac Verse Composition'', 1885; with key, 1886; reprinted, 1888; with vocabulary, 1893. * ''An Introduction to Latin Lyric Verse Composition'', 1888; with a key, 1888. * ''Commentary on the First and Second Books of Esdras in the Apocrypha''. He edited
Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord ...
's ''
Utopia A utopia ( ) typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', describing a fictional ...
'' in Latin from the edition of March 1518, and in English from the first edition of 1551; with introduction, notes and facsimiles (1895); and ''Erasmi Concio de Puero Jesu'', a sermon on the Child Jesus by Erasmus, in an old English version of unknown authorship, with introduction and notes (1901). Lupton was a contributor to the ''
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'', to William Smith and Henry Wace's ''
Dictionary of Christian Biography ''A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies'' is a 1911 religious encyclopedia of biographies. Edited by William C. Piercy and Henry Wace, Dean of ...
'', to ''
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ''Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible'' was a five-volume Biblical encyclopaedia published 1898–1904. First edition The full title was ''A Dictionary of the Bible, dealing with the Language, Literature and Contents, including the Biblical Theology ...
'', and to ''
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''.


Family

Lupton married twice: # On 30 August 1864 Mary Ann (died October 1879), daughter of Thomas St. Clair MacDougal, a colleague at the City of London school (they had three sons and two daughters); # in 1884 Alice (died 1902), daughter of Thomas Lea of Highgate.


Legacy

In
Wakefield Cathedral Wakefield Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, is a co-equal Anglican cathedral with Bradford and Ripon Cathedrals, in the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Bishop of Leeds. Originally the pa ...
, Lupton placed a stained glass window, by
Charles Eamer Kempe Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lichg ...
, in memory of his parents. After his retirement in 1899 the Lupton prize (for a knowledge of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer) was founded to commemorate at St Paul's School. In memory of his first wife Lupton erected a drinking fountain on
Brook Green Brook Green is an affluent London neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located approximately west of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Kensington, Holland Park, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Brackenbury V ...
and founded the "Mary Lupton" prizes for French and German at St Paul's School for Girls. In memory of his second wife he founded the "Alice Lupton" prizes for music at St. Paul's School for Girls, and for scripture and church history at the
North London Collegiate School for Girls North London Collegiate School (NLCS) is an independent school with a day school for girls in England. Founded in Camden Town, it is now located in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow. Associate schools are located in South Korea, Jeju I ...
.


Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Lupton, Joseph Hirst 1836 births 1905 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge English writers English translators English book editors People from Wakefield English male non-fiction writers 19th-century British translators 19th-century English male writers