Edmund Law Lushington 1811 - 1893
Edmund Law Lushington , of Park House. Fellow Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Greek, Glasgow University 1837-74. DCL and landowner (1881). Venn's entry reads: Lushington, Edmund Law. College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1828 Born: Jan. 10, 1811 Died: July 13, 1893 Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Dec. 21, 1826. (Eldest) s. of Edmund Henry (above), Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. B. (Jan. 10, 1811) at Prestwich, Lancs. School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1828; Scholar, 1830-4; B.A. (Senior Classic) 1832; Chancellor's (Senior) Classical medal, 1832; M.A. 1835. Fellow, 1834-42; Assistant tutor, 1835-7. Hon. Fellow, 1885-93. Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh, 1873, and Glasgow, 1875; Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1876. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 28, 1827. Called to the Bar, Nov. 20, 1835. Member of `The Apostles.' A lifelong friend of Thackeray, who refers to him in The Virginians, and of Tennyson, who describes him in the Epilogue to In Memoriam as `gentle, liberal-minded, great, consistent; wearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower.' Professor of Greek at Glasgow, 1838-75; Lord Rectorthere, 1884-7. Married, Oct. 14, 1842, Cecilia Tennyson (sister of the poet), dau. of the Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, LL.D., R. of Somersby, Lincs., and had issue. Edited, with a memoir, J. F. Ferrier's posthumous Works. Translated into Greek Tennyson's Oenone and Crossing the Bar. Contributed to the Memoir of Lord Tennyson by his son. Lived latterly at Park House, Maidstone, Kent, which is described in the prologue to Tennyson's Princess. Died there, July 13, 1893. Brother of Henry (1828) and the next. (Boase, II. 534; Charterhouse Worthies; Glasgow Grads.; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.; Burke, L.G.; Tennyson and His Friends, which contains a portrait.) T. W. Bayne, `Lushington, Edmund Law (1811-1893)', rev. Richard Smail, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17210, accessed 23 Sept 2005]
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| Born: Prestwich, Lancs., , England 10th Jun 1811 | Baptised:
| | Died: Park House, Maidstone, Kent, , England 13th Jul 1893 | Buried:
| | Family: Lushington |
Timeline
| 10th Jun 1811 | Born (birth) Prestwich, Lancs., England | | 14th Oct 1842 | Married Cecilia Tennyson
(Lushington ) 1821 - 1909 (marriage) Boxley, Kent, England | | 3rd Apr 1881 | Head of household in 1881 census (census) Boxley, Kent, England | | 13th Jul 1893 | Died (death) Maidstone, Kent, England |
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