George Henry Tupling


George Henry Tupling 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. He was one of the first to apply modern approaches to the study of local economic history in his Economic History of Rossendale.
He was a Member of the Chetham Society, elected as Council Member in 1934 and then Vice-President in 1938 and later a Member of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society from 1960. He was also involved in the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, being a Council Member from 1933 to 1961, twice Editor, President and Vice-President.

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