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 armsArms 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]
^the cross of the Order of the Garter, as is stated in certain sources
^According to a book about Lupton by R. Cann (2005), Lupton died in 1540.
^Lupton, Joseph Hurst (ed.). "Dr Roger Lupton". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2015. It seems certain that the provost of Eton (Dr R. Lupton) before 23 March 1510 resigned the prebend of St. Michael, Warwick, being then styled king's chaplain (ib. i. 967),