 Her father, politician Francis Martineau Lupton, developed his family's estate and built a shopping parade built on Chapeltown Road in 1891.Some months after her birth in 1881, Olive Middleton's great grandfather, Dr Thomas Michael Greenhow, died at Newton Hall as did his second wife, Anne Greenhow (née Lupton) in 1905.Harehills Grove, another mansion, was built around 1817 for the woollen merchant James Brown.