Henry Lushington , Chief Secretary at Malta.venn's entry reads: Lushington, Henry. College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1829 Born: Died: Aug. 11, 1855 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.)
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