Charles Manners Lushington

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Charles Manners Lushington
Victoria
Prime MinisterThomas Pelham-Holles
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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)

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

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

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]
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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".
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  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.
    OCLC 7038984
    .
  3. ^ a b c d
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  4. ^ a b "Married".
    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
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  9. ^ "Obituary. Mrs. Lushington". . Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  10. ^
    OCLC 3588083
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
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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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