Charles Athelstane Lupton was born on 17 April 1897. His great-grandfather was Thomas Michael Greenhow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne who was one of the first to excise a carious os calcis and one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was educated at Wellington College. After training at Exhill Training College, Cambridge, he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916 and served on the Western Front, mostly in the Ypres salient, until the end of the war. He was awarded the MC in 1917 and reached the rank of acting Major. In 1919 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, taking the Natural Sciences Tripos and gaining a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital in 1921. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923 he held house appointments at St Thomas's and took the MB BCh in 1924. In 1926 he took the FRCS and entered general practice. For thirty-three years he was an outstanding Farnborough doctor and general practice surgeon at Farnborough and Cove War Memorial Hospital, where his skill and resourcefulness never seemed to fail him. His high ethical standard won the respect of his colleagues and his conscientiousness and endless patience the affection of his patients. He found time to support the Red Cross as medical officer, and he was divisional president of the St John Ambulance Brigade. His sound judgment was welcomed on group hospital management committees. His interests included literary and artistic work. He was President of the Thoresby Archaeological Society and chairman of 'Aid in Sickness' for Leeds, of the Leeds Housing Trust, and of the local branch of the Royal United Kingdom Benevolent Association. He was also chairman of the Yorkshire area of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In later years he travelled widely. He married Esther Tuckey in 1926 and she predeceased him. They had a son and two daughters, one of whom is a physiotherapist. He died on 2 March 1977, aged 79 years.