Modern English biography

Sherbrooke_ (1893). LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). _b._ 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890. LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839, master of the crown office, London). _b._ Singleton, Lancs. 13 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England, Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions 1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. _d._ Paris 11 Aug. 1855. _bur._ Boxley, Kent. _Henry Lushington’s The Italian war_ (1859), _memoir pp. ix–ci_. LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). _b._ 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. _d._ 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863. LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 17 June 1801). _b._ Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3 Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P. Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and 1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ 26 Dorset square, London 29 May 1859. LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863). _b._ Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher 1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P. Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading 1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets 1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821, one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821; judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858; judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867; P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July 1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818. _d._ Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. _Law Times_, _liv_ 225–6, 240–1 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_ 91, 95, 211 (1873), _portrait_. LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). _b._ Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803; entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852; commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May 1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Oak lodge, Thornton Heath, Surrey 28 May 1877. LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. _d._ Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853. LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 1801). _b._ Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. _d._ Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. _An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington_ (1841). LUTHER, ROBERT. _b._ 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. _d._ Acton 7 Sep. 1862. _Sporting Review_, _xlviii_ 412–13 (1862). LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). _b._ Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. _d._ Bolton 3 July 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884) 403–4. LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). _b._ Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. _d._ Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. _bur._ Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. _Memorials of a consecrated life_ (1883), _portrait_; _Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb_ (1886). LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). _b._ 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. _d._ 12 Oct. 1888. LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). _b._ 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme