Roger Lupton

Rubbing of monumental brass in Eton College Chapel, of Roger Lupton (d.1540). His hair displays the tonsure of a cleric. He wears the mantle of a Canon of Windsor (based in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle), displaying on his left shoulder a Cross of St George within a circle.[1] A speech scroll emanating from his chest is inscribed in the Latin with the opening words of Psalm 51: Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam ("Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness"[2]). Below is an heraldic escutcheon displaying his arms
Arms of Roger Lupton: Argent, on a cheveron between three wolves' heads erased sable three lilies argent, on a chief gules a Tau cross between two escallops or[3]
Lupton's Tower, Eton College, built 1514–20, together with Lupton's Chapel[4]

Roger Lupton (1456–27 February 1539/40)[5] was an English lawyer and cleric who served as chaplain to King Henry VII (1485–1509) and to his son King Henry VIII (1509–1547) and was appointed by the former as Provost of Eton College (1503/4–1535).[6][7][8]

  1. ^ the cross of the Order of the Garter, as is stated in certain sources
  2. ^ Text per King James's Bible
  3. ^ Burke, Sir John Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. Bohn. Retrieved 19 August 2020. Lupton (Yorkshire; granted temp, Henry VII.) The same Arms and Crest [as above - Lupton (Thame, co. Oxford)]
  4. ^ Historic England. "Eton College (1290278)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  5. ^ According to a book about Lupton by R. Cann (2005), Lupton died in 1540.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference DNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Henry VIII: May 1509, 1–14 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509–1514. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920". British History Online. Retrieved 23 January 2013. The King's chaplains: Mr. Hobbys, Mr. Cosyn, Mr. Vaghan, Mr. Lupton, Mr. Lychfeld, Mr. Honywood, Mr. West, brother to the lord Dalaware, Mr. Wolsey, Mr. Oxenbrygge, Mr. Esterfeld, Mr. Fyssher, Mr. Rawlyns, Mr. Teylour, Mr. Hatton "profyce of Cambryge," Mr Petir of ye Closet
  8. ^ Leach, Athur Francis (18 April 2013). Early Yorkshire Schools. Cambridge University Press. p. xli. ISBN 9781108058599. Retrieved 6 February 2015.