Charles Manners Lushington

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
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(m. 1846)​
Alma materOriel College, Oxford (1843 (1843): MA)

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.

Background and education

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

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

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

  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.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Vacant
Writ suspended (1853)
Title last held by
Henry Plumptre Gipps
Henry Butler-Johnstone 		Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1854 – 1857
With: Sir William Somerville, Bt 		Succeeded by