page_title: Lupton family
section_title: Olive Middleton (née Lupton)
hierarchical_section_title: Lupton family / Luptons of Leeds / Twentieth century / Olive Middleton (née Lupton)
caption_attribution_description: English: Olive Christiana Middleton (née Lupton) c.1914
context_page_description: The Lupton family in Yorkshire achieved prominence in ecclesiastical and academic circles in England in the 16th century through the fame of Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College and chaplain to Henry VII and Henry VIII. By the Georgian era, the family was established as merchants and ministers in Leeds. Described in the city's archives as "landed gentry, a political and business dynasty", they had become successful woollen cloth merchants and manufacturers who flourished during the Industrial Revolution and traded throughout northern Europe, the Americas and Australia.
  Arnold Lupton MP and other members of the family contributed to the political life of the UK and to the civic life of Leeds well into the 20th century. Several members were well acquainted with the British Royal Family and were philanthropists. Some were Lord Mayors of Leeds and progressive in their views. They were associated with the Church of England and the Unitarian church. The Lupton Residences of the University of Leeds are named after members of the family.
  The Luptons are the ancestors of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge: her great-grandmother Olive Lupton married Richard Noel Middleton.
context_section_description: Frank Lupton's eldest daughter Olive (1881–1936) was born at Newton Grove and grew up at Rockland on the family's estate in Potternewton. She was educated at Roedean and was accepted to study at Cambridge University but remained at home with her father and studied locally at Yorkshire College, Victoria University in Leeds.  In 1909, Olive Lupton was a member of the executive committee of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs, and the Appeal Committee for the enlargement and improvement of Leeds General Infirmary Nurses' Home. Olive worked as an honorary officer at the Stead Hostel, a home in Leeds for working women and girls which was established by her father. Olive volunteered for The Leeds Ladies' Association for the Care and Protection of Friendless Girls  whose meetings were held in 1932 at Olive's family seat –  Beechwood Estate –  at the invitation of her first cousins, the "Misses Lupton" who lived at Beechwood and were also volunteers for the association. Olive's grandmother, Frances Lupton, had established the association in Leeds in 1885.
  In 1910, Olive was honorary secretary of the West Riding Ladies' Club.
  In 1914, Olive Lupton married solicitor Richard Noel Middleton who subsequently became a director of William Lupton & Co. She likely met him through her father, who sat on the Leeds City Council with Richard Middleton's legal partner, Sir William Clarke. During the First World War, she lived at Gledhow Hall, the home of her second cousin Lady Airedale where she volunteered to work as a V.A.D. nurse. Olive's cousin, the Hon. Doris Kitson and her sister-in-law, Gertrude Middleton also volunteered. During this time, Olive's husband, Lieutenant Richard Noel Middleton was fighting on the Western Front.
  Newspapers from December 1933 record that "Mrs. Noel Middleton" was a committee member of "The Infirmary Appeal" whose patron, "the Princess Royal agreed to  support the scheme of fundraising" for the Leeds Infirmary. The committee's Vice-Presidents included the Princess's sister-in-law the Hon. Mrs Edward Lascelles and other women "serving on the Committee" included Olive's relatives; her first cousin Elinor Lupton and Jessie B. Kitson.
  In February 1935, Olive was reported as having been elected as a governor of Leeds Y.W.C.A. at the association's annual meeting at which obstetrician and gynaecologist Dame Louise McIlroy led discussions about young women's access to  university  and their potential careers in medicine and dentistry.
  Following her death in 1936 from peritonitis, Olive Middleton's descendants inherited the trust funds established by her father.
  The Middleton's eldest son, Christopher Maurice (born 1915), later changed his surname from Middleton to Lupton. Their youngest son was Oxford-educated pilot, Peter (1920–2010), grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa Middleton, and James William Middleton. Peter Middleton was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a two-month tour of South America in 1962.
caption: Olive Christiana Middleton (née Lupton)
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