Charles Manners Lushington

Charles Manners Lushington (27 April 1819 – 27 November 1864) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1854 to 1857.

Charles Manners Lushington
Member of Parliament for Canterbury
In office
19 August 1854 (1854-08-19) – 29 June 1857 (1857-06-29)
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterThomas Pelham-Holles
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born(1819-04-27)27 April 1819
Cleveland Square, Bayswater, West London, England
Died27 November 1864(1864-11-27) (aged 45)
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Northern France
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Henriette Stafford Northcote
(m. 1846)
Alma materOriel College, Oxford (1843 (1843): MA)

Background and education edit

Lushington was born on 27 April 1819 at 4 Cleveland Square, Bayswater, West London,[1][2] the youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington and Anne Elizabeth, née Harris.[3][4] He was educated at Eton College, Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1843 with a MA, and later elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[3] He served in the East Kent Yeomanry Cavalry of which he became captain in November 1853.[5]

Political career edit

He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Canterbury at a by-election in August 1854,[6] after the borough's writ of election had been suspended when a Royal Commission found that there had been extensive corruption. Lushington held the seat until the 1857 general election,[7] which he did not contest.[8]: 78–79  At the 1859 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Nottingham.[8]: 226 

Family edit

On 5 May 1846, Lushington married Henrietta Stafford Northcote, daughter of Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, 7th Baronet and Agnes Mary Cockburn, at Trinity Church, Marylebone.[3][4] She died on 20 January 1900 (aged 79) at Florence.[9] Formerly of Norton Court, Kent, he died on 27 November 1864(1864-11-27) (aged 45) at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Northern France.[3] Their daughter Agnes married Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore in 1870.[10]

References edit

  1. ^ Asperne, James, ed. (May 1819). "Births". European Magazine, and London Review. January to June 1819. Vol. 75. London: Philological Society. p. 464. hdl:2027/njp.32101065086850. OCLC 301559720.
  2. ^ A., J., ed. (1819). "Alphabetical List of the House of Commons". The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies. London: William Stockdale. p. 81. hdl:2027/nyp.33433075901839. OCLC 7038984.
  3. ^ a b c d Urban, Sylvanus, ed. (January 1865). "Deaths Arranged in Chronological Order". The Gentleman's Magazine. January to June 1865. Vol. 218. London: William Pickering. p. 119. hdl:2027/osu.32435054260294. OCLC 1570611.
  4. ^ a b "Married". Morning Post. 6 May 1846. p. 7. OCLC 72823345. Retrieved 3 June 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "No. 21498". The London Gazette. 29 November 1853. p. 3478.
  6. ^ "No. 21585". The London Gazette. 22 August 1854. p. 2598.
  7. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2 )
  8. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 1–746. ISBN 978-0-900178-26-9. OCLC 470697525.
  9. ^ "Obituary. Mrs. Lushington". The Times. No. 36045. London. 23 January 1900. p. 7. ISSN 0140-0460. Gale CS118548022. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  10. ^ Fox‑Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families. A complete peerage, baronetage, and knightage, and a directory of some gentlemen of coat armour, and being the first attempt to show which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works. p. 787. hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t0bv81w2k. OCLC 3588083.

External links edit

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Vacant
Writ suspended (1853)
Title last held by
Henry Plumptre Gipps
Henry Butler-Johnstone
Member of Parliament for Canterbury
18541857
With: Sir William Somerville, Bt
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