Joseph Hirst Lupton

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

Born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, 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, and then at Giggleswick school, where he became captain, he was admitted on 3 July 1854 to a sizarship at St John's College, Cambridge. 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, then in Milk Street, Cheapside; among his pupils there were Henry Palin Gurney and James Smith Reid. Ordained deacon in 1859 and priest in 1860, he served as curate at St. Paul's Church, Avenue Road, N.W., and afterwards to W. Sparrow Simpson, rector of St Matthew Friday Street. Proceeding M.A. in 1861, Lupton succeeded to the fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge vacated by John Eldon Gorst on 19 March 1861.

In 1864 Lupton was appointed sur-master and second mathematical master in St Paul's School, London, then in St. Paul's churchyard (from 1884 at Hammersmith). He remained sur-master for 35 years, the high masters being Herbert Kynaston and then Frederick William Walker. In 1897 Lupton became Latin master of the upper eighth and honorary librarian.

Lupton was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1887, became preacher to Gray's Inn 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's Project of Union between the Gallican and Anglican Churches (1717–1720). He died at Earls Terrace, Kensington, on 15 December 1905, and was buried in Hammersmith cemetery.

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