Thomas Lupton

Born: ?, Galloway - Died: 30 January 1940

• member and President of Stirling Chess Club
• life member of the Scottish Chess Association

The Scotsman of Thursday, 1st February 1940, p 4:
Mr Thomas Lupton, Netherby, Dunblane, a partner in the Stirling law firm of Mathie, MacLuckie & Lupton, who died on Tuesday night at the age of 77, had a long association with church and Local Government affairs.

The son of a schoolmaster at New Luce, Wigtonshire, he was educated at Edinburgh University, and joined the firm of J. & J. Mathie & MacLuckie in 1890, becoming a partner shortly afterwards. Mr John D. Mathie, one of the founders of the firm, was Clerk to the old Road TRustees of Stirlingshire, and his successor, Mr Robert MacLuckie, was District Road Clerk and Collector, and afterwards Clerk to the Central District Committee, a position that was later taken up by Mr Lupton. On the coming into force of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, Mr Lupton was appointed a Depute County Clerk, and held that office until he retired from Local Government work in 1935. The firm then had a continuous connection of 85 years to Local Government administration.

Mr Lupton, who held numerous church offices in Stirling, was one of the hundred selected by the Church of Scotland to adjust the terms of the 1929 Union with the United Free Church. Formerly an elder of the East Church, Stirling (now the Church of the Holy Rude), he later held a similar office in the congregation of Dunblane Cathedral. A Justice of the Peace for the County, he was also a director of Stirling Royal Infirmary. In his younger days he was a prominent member of Stirling Choral Society. A member of Laurelhill Tennis Club, Stirling, he was a prominent county player. He was also president of Stirling Chess Club, and a former champion. An authority on bees and astronomy, he was also an expert gardener.

Mr Lupton is survived by a widow and daughter.

Other source
Stirling Observer, 1 February 1940, p. 5 (photo).

Compiled by Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

Updated - 31/01/2019