Rev. James Stephen Lushington , Youngest son. Of Rodmersham, Kent. Prebendary of Carlisle, Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne and of Latton, Essex. Venn's entry reads: Lushington, James Stephen. College: PETERHOUSE Entered: Michs. 1752 Born: Died: June 17, 1801 Adm. pens. (age 18) at PETERHOUSE, June 14, 1752. S. of Thomas Godfrey, of Sittingbourne, Kent (by his 1st wife, Dorothy, dau. of John Gisbourne). (B. Nov. 1734.) Bapt. Nov. 12, 1734, at Sittingbourne, Kent. School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1752; Scholar, 1752; B.A. 1756; M.A. 1759. Fellow, 1761. Of Rodmersham, Kent. J.P. for Northumberland. Chaplain to General Yorke's Dragoons, 1759. V. of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, 1770-80. Preb. of Carlisle, 1777-1801. R. of Latton, Essex, 1782-7. V. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1783-1801. Married (1) Apr. 5, 1764, Mary, dau. of the Right Rev. Edmund Law, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, and had issue; (2) Mary, dau. of the Rev. Humphrey Christian, of Docking, Norfolk, and had further issue. Died June 17, 1801, at Newcastle; buried at Little St Mary's, Cambridge. Father of Edmund H. (1782), Thomas G. (1782) and William J. (1790); brother of Thomas G. (1747). (T. A. Walker, 305 and MS. Notes; Burke, L.G.; Cant. Act Book; Al. Carthus.)
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