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George M C Lupton

Yarra Yarra Rowing Club (VIC)

George Marmaduke Clayton Lupton - 27 June 1861 (City Rd), Middlesex, England - 25 January 1943 Caulfield Hospital, Victoria, Australia.

On 21 Aug 1886 George voyaged to Australia as an assisted migrant and listed his occupation as a clerk. The ship was called the Ilona and docked first at Adelaide and then Melbourne, Sydney.

George became a noted and clearly very effective administrator of the sport in Victoria, initially at Yarra Yarra Rowing Club, and then at the Victorian Rowing Association where he held the position of Vice-President. Newspaper reports indicated that he was obviously a trusted pair of hands to deal with difficult situations. He was also a respected boat race official starting Victorian State Championship races.

1890 - Assistant Hon. Secretary, Yarra Yarra Rowing Club¹

1891-94 - Hon. Secretary, Yarra Yarra Rowing Club^2,3

1893 - Delegate to Victorian Rowing Association⁴

1896 - Victorian Sculling Championship, starter⁵

1898-02 - Hon. Treasurer, Upper Yarra Regatta Association⁶

1903 - Chairman of the Upper Yarra Ragatta Association and noted as "mainspring of the Upper Yarra amateur regatta committee for a great many season".⁷

1902-06 - Vice-President Yarra Yarra Rowing Club⁸

1908-12 - Vice-President of Rowing Victoria (then Victorian Rowing Association)

Outside his rowing activities, George was a clerk for Connell's Wine Merchants, Melbourne for all of his working life in Melbourne.⁹

The following further information was supplied by Jim Skidmore in June 2024.

Joined Yarra in 1888/89

Assistant secretary 1888/89

Secretary 1889/90 - 1893/94

Treasurer 1895 - 1898

Vice president 1898/99 - 1927/28

No race wins accorded to George. Whether club events or regatta races.

Andrew Guerin
August 2021 (updated in June 2024 with further Yarra Yarra Rowing Club information supplied by Jim Skidmore.)

Sources:

Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Monday 22 September 1890, page 7
Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Saturday 17 September 1892, page 28 and email from Peter Gill 29 August 2021
Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thursday 23 March 1893, page 3
Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 12 December 1893, page 3
Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Monday 23 November 1896, page 6
Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Saturday 5 November 1898, page 17
Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Saturday 15 August 1903, page 21
Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Saturday 13 September 1902, page 28
Email from descendant Carol Kelly, 29th August 2021 - also provided image of George Lupton.

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