Modern English biography

Westminster abbey 27 Dec. LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). _b._ Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, _d._ there 18 May 1873. LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). _b._ Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and _d._ 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. _d._ Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. _Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp._ 213–16, _portrait_; _The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp._ 129–32, _portrait of Master M’Grath_. LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). _b._ 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. _The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p._ 5. LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). _b._ Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. _d._ 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. _Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels_ (1884) 373–411, _portrait_; _A generation of Judges. By their reporter_ (1886) 21–9; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 513 (1865), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p._ 307, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 20 (1882), _portrait_. LUSHINGTON, _Charles_ (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). _b._ London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. _d._ 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866. LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). _b._ 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. _d._ Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864. LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, _d._ 1839). _b._ 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii