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Information Centre in Sedbergh or by post from SDHS Publications, c/o
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Dr Roger
Lupton
1456 - 1540
The history
of an important, but little known, sixteenth century figure.
Roger Lupton
was born in obscurity. He served the crown during the reigns of
Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. He was a canon of St
George's Chapel, Windsor. The buildings constructed while he was
Provost of Eton continue to be appreciated today.
The chantry
school that he set up in Sedbergh, the town of his birth, has
continued. It was known firstly as The Free Grammar School of
Roger Lupton then in 1551 it became the Free Grammar School of
King Edward VI. In the nineteenth century it became Sedbergh
School.
Richard Cann
was formerly
Director of Studies
at Sedbergh School
Elspeth
Griffiths
Sedbergh School Archivist
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