Arnold Lupton

Professor Arnold Lupton (11 September 1846 – 23 May 1930) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, academic, mining engineer and a managing director (collieries). He was jailed for pacifist activity during World War One.

Arnold was the son of Arthur Lupton (1817–1881) and Elizabeth Wicksteed. Arnold's father, Arthur Lupton Junior, was a Unitarian minister. Arthur Lupton Junior was the son of Arthur Lupton Senior (1782-1824) who had belonged to the prosperous mercantile, political and landowning Lupton family of Leeds. The family of Arthur Junior were living at Headingley in the 1840s, as were many of their Lupton relatives. Arnold's mother was sister to the Rev. Charles Wicksteed, who had recently arrived as minister to Mill Hill Chapel on Leeds City Square and had married Jane Lupton, sister to Arthur. Both the Wicksteed siblings were described as "Unitarians of vigorous mind and keen intelligence". Through Charles and Jane, Arnold had several first cousins of note: Janet, who wrote, as Mrs Lewis, a memoir including her parents; Philip, the economist and Unitarian theologian; Hartley, president of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers; and Charles, also an engineer, who bequeathed Wicksteed Park to the people of Kettering. He also had numerous Lupton relatives making their marks on the country in education, business, and politics.

Lupton was professor of mining at Leeds University until 1905. Concurrent with both his academic and parliamentary career — i.e., from the late 19th century until the 1920s — Lupton was Managing Director of several U.K. mining companies/syndicates. In 1904, the press reported that his name was "largely identified with collieries in England" and beyond. Between 1910 and 1916, Lupton was a business associate of George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway. Forming the Northern Union Mining Company Limited, Lupton leased land from the Viscount's coal-rich estates. Along with Galway and others, Lupton gained enormous financial benefits from this mining syndicate. During the war, Parliament passed a Trading with the Enemy Act - Lupton's business dealings with Germany, particularly the industrialist and politician Herr Stinnes, were leaked to the British press and caused great concern .

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