Godfrey Lushington

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Sir Godfrey Lushington

Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office of the United Kingdom
from 1886 to 1895.

Lushington was born in

President of the Oxford Union in 1853–1854 and was elected a fellow of All Souls in 1854. Two years later, in 1856, he wrote a "rather scathing essay on his Alma Mater" in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine.[1]

In 1865 he married Beatrice Anne Shore Smith (1835–1914), daughter of barrister Samuel Smith and granddaughter of William Smith. She was also a cousin of Florence Nightingale and of Barbara Bodichon.[2]

With his brother Vernon, he advocated

A.J. Mundella, Edward Spencer Beesly, Henry Crompton, and Frederic Harrison, played a leading role in the acceptance of trades' union legitimacy.[3]

Influenced by

Frederick Denison Maurice, Lushington joined his brother, and Frederic Harrison, as a teacher at the Working Men's College, and became a benefactor and member of the College governing corporation.[4]

He rose to

Whitechapel Murders gripped attention and imagination; a Jewish and Anarchist connection was seriously considered. The chalked Goulston Street message was seen by Commissioner Charles Warren to have potential for increased religious tension; Warren explained to Lushington that reason for the immediate removal of the message.[5][6]

He retired from the civil service in 1895 and became an

Anti-Anarchist Congress, (24 November to 21 December 1898) with Sir Philip Currie
and Sir C. Howard Vincent.

After retirement, Lushington gave evidence to the Gladstone Committee on prison reform:[7] “I regard as unfavourable to reformation the status of a prisoner throughout his whole career; the crushing of self-respect, the starving of all moral instinct he may possess, the absence of all opportunity to do or receive a kindness, the continual association of none but criminals, the forced labour, and the denial of all liberty. I believe the true method of reforming a man, of restoring him to society, is exactly in the opposite direction to all these.”[8]

References

  1. ^ P.C. Fleming. "Oxford. Godfrey Lushington". rossettiarchive.org. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Lushington family archive". 2 June 2021. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021. See also: "Lady Beatrice Lushington". geni.com. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. ^ Henry Compton: an overview Archived March 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ J. F. C. Harrison ,A History of the Working Men's College (1854-1954), Routledge Kegan Paul, 1954
  5. ^ Letter from Charles Warren to Godfrey Lushington, 6 November 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C.
  6. ^ Letter from Charles Warren to Godfrey Lushington, 10 October 1888, Metropolitan Police Archive MEPO 1/48, quoted in Cook, p. 78; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 140 and Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 43
  7. ^ Cambridge Journals
  8. ^ Prison Reform from a Social-Democratic Point of View Archived September 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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