ECHO OF SUDAN RISING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19269, 10 March 1937, Page 7

ECHO OF SUDAN RISING

KINDNESS REPAID GIFT AFTER 50 YEARS LONDON, Jan. i. The kindness of a unlive iaunty to ifTi Lay nshman m captivity duringl Hie ouiiuii rising ot lobo is recalled ut Llie will ot Alv. Malcolm I’. J.iipton, an ciiyi11001', oL Mamai'sh, Lssex. All 1 , implon, .who tiled four months ago, aged /'/, 101 l LliblJ la two native women. A lviend of .Mr. Lupton staled last night "frank Lupton Boy, a. brother ol .Malcolm, had been appointed Governor ot bahr-el-tlhaza by General Gordon when the Sudan rebellion broke out. Iho Alnhdi forced him to surrender, and he %vas taken to Omdurniau. “Soon afterwards, .Malcolm Lupton aeeompanied a eolunm up the Nile under General Butler, who hoped to rescue General Gordon from Khartoum and Lupton Bey from Omdurman. But the attempt failed. “Lupton Bey died in captivity in May, 1888. “Years later, Malcolm Lupton went to the Sudan again, and traced bis brother’s body in it Mohammedan cemetery. Me had it, reburied in a Christian cemetery in Khartoum. “Them lie learned that a native family bad been very good to Lupton Hey, and nursed him during! his last illness, lie also learned that, there were two children in the family, named Victoria and Fanny, who were brought tip in a mission school at Khartoum. “Now Malcolm liar, expressed his gratitude to the natives by this bequest. The money will lie conveyed to the women through the Khartoum Olurvli Missionary Society.”