George Henry Tupling

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George Henry Tupling {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS|size=100%}} (1883 – 1962) was a British historian who was Vice-President of the Chetham Society and President and Editor of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.

Life

Tupling was educated at the University of London gaining a Bachelors BSc(Econ) degree then proceeded to MA and PhD. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{Cite journal|date=1962|title=Obituary: George Henry Tupling|journal=Transactions of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society|volume=72|pages=177–79}}{{Cite journal|last=Astling|first=A.|date=2012|title=A Life in Local History: George Henry Tupling, 1883–1962|journal=Transactions of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society|volume=108|pages=56–68}} He was one of the first to apply modern approaches to the study of local economic history in his Economic History of Rossendale (1927).{{Cite web|title=G. H. Tupling|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803110122253|access-date=2021-03-11|website=Oxford Reference|language=en}}

He was a Member of the Chetham Society, elected as Council Member in 1934 and then Vice-President in 1938{{Cite web|title=Chetham Society: Past Officers|url=https://www.chethamsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CS_Officers_Council_1843-2013.pdf|access-date=11 March 2021|website=Chetham Society}} and later a Member of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society from 1960.{{Cite web|title=Lit and Phil Card Index {{!}} TUPLING, George Henry Dr|url=http://cardindex.manlitphil.ac.uk/cards/3024|access-date=2021-03-11|website=cardindex.manlitphil.ac.uk}} He was also involved in the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, being a Council Member from 1933 to 1961, twice Editor (1934–8 and 1949–54), President (1946–9) and Vice-President (1949–61).

Select bibliography

[https://books.google.com/books?id=RZnFtQEACAAJ The Economic History of Rossendale], Chetham Society, New Series, 86 (1927).
[https://books.google.com/books?id=vAHNugEACAAJ “The Royal and Seignorial Bailiffs of Lancashire in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries”], Chetham Miscellanies VIII, Chetham Society, New Series, 109 (1945).
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Wa9WygEACAAJ South Lancashire in the reign of Edward II: As illustrated by the pleas at Wigan recorded in Coram Rege roll no. 254], Chetham Society, Third Series, 1 (1949).