James Lupton, Baron Lupton

The Right Honourable The Lord Lupton CBE
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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 69)
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

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.

Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord Oates	Gentlemen Baron Lupton	Followed by The Lord Foster of Bath