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NameProfessor Edmund Law LUSHINGTON LLD DCL , 5410
Birth1811
Death1893
EducationCharterhouse and Trinity College Cambridge
FatherEdmund Henry LUSHINGTON , 5409 (1766-1839)
MotherSophia PHILLIPS , 4881 (1779-1841)
Spouses
Mother Elizabeth FYTCHE , 7445 (1781-1865)
ChildrenEdmund , 7432
Notes for Professor Edmund Law LUSHINGTON LLD DCL
Of Park House, Kent; Prof Greek and Lord Rector Glasgow University


Edmund Law Lushington (10 January 1811 – 13 July 1893) was a classical scholar, a Professor of Greek, and Rector of the University of Glasgow.[1]

From Wikipedia

Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Park House, Kent, England. He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington (Bencher of the Inner Temple, Puisne Judge in Ceylon, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Audit Board, Master of the Crown Office) and Sophia Phillips. Lushington was educated at Charterhouse and as a Greek scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s.

On 14 October 1842 he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of Alfred Lord Tennyson, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem In Memoriam (1850), an epithalamium (nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest life-long friends, as well as being his brother-in-law.

A Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Lushington went on to become a Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87).

He had four children: Edmund ("Eddy"), Cecilia ("Zilly"), Emily ("Emmy"), and Lucy. Edward Lear made many gifts to the Lushington children included an album containing drawings of birds, animals and landscapes, which he presented to Zilly on her tenth birthday in 1855.


From Venn’s

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 Rector there, 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.)
Notes for Professor Edmund Law LUSHINGTON LLD DCL
Dr. Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Park House, Kent, England. He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington (Bencher of the Inner Temple, Puisne Judge in Ceylon, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Audit Board, Master of the Crown Office) and Sophia Phillips.

Lushington was educated at Charterhouse and as a Greek scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s.

On 14 October 1842 he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of Alfred Lord Tennyson, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem In Memoriam (1850), an epithalamium (nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest life-long friends, as well as being his brother-in-law.

A Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Lushington went on to become a Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (1837-74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884-87).

He died in 1893.

He had four children: Edmund ("Eddy"), Cecilia ("Zilly"), Emily ("Emmy"), and Lucy. Edward Lear made many gifts to the Lushington children included an album containing drawings of birds, animals and landscapes, which he presented to Zilly on her tenth birthday in 1855.
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