Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameHenry LUSHINGTON, 4879
Birth1812
Death1855
EducationCharterhouse and Trinity College Cambridge
FatherEdmund Henry LUSHINGTON , 5409 (1766-1839)
MotherSophia PHILLIPS , 4881 (1779-1841)
Notes for Henry LUSHINGTON
Henry Lushington (1812–1855), colonial administrator, chief secretary to the government of Malta.
Lushington was born in Singleton, near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, 13 April 1812. His father, Edmund Henry Lushington, of Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 3 May 1793, became a puisne judge at Ceylon, chairman of the colonial audit board, master of the crown office, a bencher of his inn, and died at Park House, Maidstone, in 1839.
The second son, Henry, was educated at the Charterhouse School, 1823–8, and at the age of fifteen was at the head of the school. He became a student of Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1829. In 1832, and again in 1833, he obtained the Porson university prize for Greek iambics. In 1834 he graduated B.A. as senior optime and with a first class in the classical tripos, and he proceeded M.A. in 1837. He was elected a fellow of his college in 1836.[1] Called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 20 Nov. 1840, he went the home circuit.
Lushington was one of the earliest and most zealous admirers of Tennyson's youthful genius. In 1841 he made the poet's personal acquaintance, and the dedication of ‘The Princess’ to Lushington in 1847 commemorates the cordial intimacy which followed. Lord Grey in 1847 appointed him chief secretary to the government of Malta, and in 1849 he brought forward the proposed code of laws before the newly elected legislative council. Although in weak health he remained at his post till 1855, when he left for a visit to England.
He died on the journey at Paris, 11 August 1855, and was buried at Boxley, Kent.
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(age 17) at TRINITY, Mar. 6, 1828.
[2nd] s. of Edmund Henry (1782) [of Hanwell, Middlesex]. [B. Apr. 13, 1812, at Singleton, Lancs.] School, Charterhouse.
Matric. Michs. 1829; Porson prize, 1832 and 1833; Scholar, 1833; B.A. (6th Classic) 1834; M.A. 1837.
Fellow, 1836.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, Apr. 23, 1834.
Called to the Bar, Nov. 20, 1840.
On the Home Circuit.
Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta, 1847-55; introduced the proposed code of laws before the newly-elected Legislative Council, 1849.
Tennyson pronounced him the best critic he had ever known, and dedicated The Princess to him, 1847.
Author, Fellow Commoners and Honorary Degrees, and works on politics and railways; also verse.
Contributed to Prolusiones Academicae. Died, unmarried, Aug. 11, 1855, in Paris; buried at Boxley, Kent.
Brother of Edmund L. (1826) and Franklin (1840). (Carthusian Worthies; Burke, L.G.; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1855, II. 441; Tennyson and His Friends.)
Lushington was born in Singleton, near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, 13 April 1812. His father, Edmund Henry Lushington, of Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 3 May 1793, became a puisne judge at Ceylon, chairman of the colonial audit board, master of the crown office, a bencher of his inn, and died at Park House, Maidstone, in 1839.
The second son, Henry, was educated at the Charterhouse School, 1823–8, and at the age of fifteen was at the head of the school. He became a student of Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1829. In 1832, and again in 1833, he obtained the Porson university prize for Greek iambics. In 1834 he graduated B.A. as senior optime and with a first class in the classical tripos, and he proceeded M.A. in 1837. He was elected a fellow of his college in 1836.[1] Called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 20 Nov. 1840, he went the home circuit.
Lushington was one of the earliest and most zealous admirers of Tennyson's youthful genius. In 1841 he made the poet's personal acquaintance, and the dedication of ‘The Princess’ to Lushington in 1847 commemorates the cordial intimacy which followed. Lord Grey in 1847 appointed him chief secretary to the government of Malta, and in 1849 he brought forward the proposed code of laws before the newly elected legislative council. Although in weak health he remained at his post till 1855, when he left for a visit to England.
He died on the journey at Paris, 11 August 1855, and was buried at Boxley, Kent.
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(age 17) at TRINITY, Mar. 6, 1828.
[2nd] s. of Edmund Henry (1782) [of Hanwell, Middlesex]. [B. Apr. 13, 1812, at Singleton, Lancs.] School, Charterhouse.
Matric. Michs. 1829; Porson prize, 1832 and 1833; Scholar, 1833; B.A. (6th Classic) 1834; M.A. 1837.
Fellow, 1836.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, Apr. 23, 1834.
Called to the Bar, Nov. 20, 1840.
On the Home Circuit.
Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta, 1847-55; introduced the proposed code of laws before the newly-elected Legislative Council, 1849.
Tennyson pronounced him the best critic he had ever known, and dedicated The Princess to him, 1847.
Author, Fellow Commoners and Honorary Degrees, and works on politics and railways; also verse.
Contributed to Prolusiones Academicae. Died, unmarried, Aug. 11, 1855, in Paris; buried at Boxley, Kent.
Brother of Edmund L. (1826) and Franklin (1840). (Carthusian Worthies; Burke, L.G.; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1855, II. 441; Tennyson and His Friends.)
Notes for Henry LUSHINGTON
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(age 17) at TRINITY, Mar. 6, 1828.
[2nd] s. of Edmund Henry (1782) [of Hanwell, Middlesex]. [B. Apr. 13, 1812, at Singleton, Lancs.] School, Charterhouse.
Matric. Michs. 1829; Porson prize, 1832 and 1833; Scholar, 1833; B.A. (6th Classic) 1834; M.A. 1837.
Fellow, 1836.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, Apr. 23, 1834.
Called to the Bar, Nov. 20, 1840.
On the Home Circuit.
Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta, 1847-55; introduced the proposed code of laws before the newly-elected Legislative Council, 1849.
Tennyson pronounced him the best critic he had ever known, and dedicated The Princess to him, 1847.
Author, Fellow Commoners and Honorary Degrees, and works on politics and railways; also verse.
Contributed to Prolusiones Academicae. Died, unmarried, Aug. 11, 1855, in Paris; buried at Boxley, Kent.
Brother of Edmund L. (1826) and Franklin (1840). (Carthusian Worthies; Burke, L.G.; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1855, II. 441; Tennyson and His Friends.)
Adm. pens.
(age 17) at TRINITY, Mar. 6, 1828.
[2nd] s. of Edmund Henry (1782) [of Hanwell, Middlesex]. [B. Apr. 13, 1812, at Singleton, Lancs.] School, Charterhouse.
Matric. Michs. 1829; Porson prize, 1832 and 1833; Scholar, 1833; B.A. (6th Classic) 1834; M.A. 1837.
Fellow, 1836.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, Apr. 23, 1834.
Called to the Bar, Nov. 20, 1840.
On the Home Circuit.
Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta, 1847-55; introduced the proposed code of laws before the newly-elected Legislative Council, 1849.
Tennyson pronounced him the best critic he had ever known, and dedicated The Princess to him, 1847.
Author, Fellow Commoners and Honorary Degrees, and works on politics and railways; also verse.
Contributed to Prolusiones Academicae. Died, unmarried, Aug. 11, 1855, in Paris; buried at Boxley, Kent.
Brother of Edmund L. (1826) and Franklin (1840). (Carthusian Worthies; Burke, L.G.; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1855, II. 441; Tennyson and His Friends.)