Charles Manners Lushington

Charles Manners Lushington (1 August 1819 – 27 November 1864)^[1][2] was an English Conservative^[3] politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1854 to 1857.

Lushington was born at Sanderstead, Surrey, the son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington and his wife Annie Elizabeth Harris.^[1] He served in the East Kent Yeomanry Cavalry of which he became captain in November 1853.^[4]

He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Canterbury at a by-election in August 1854,^[5] after the borough's writ of election had been suspended when a Royal Commission found that there had been extensive corruption. Lushington held the seat until the 1857 general election,^[2] which he did not contest.^[3] At the 1859 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Nottingham.^[6]

Lushington lived at Norton Court, Kent.^[1] He died at Boulogne at the age of 45.^[7]

Lushington married Henriette Stafford Northcote, daughter of Henry Stafford Northcote and Agnes Mary Cockburn, on 5 May 1846.^[1] Their daughter Agnes married Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore.^[8]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} the Peerage.com
2. ^ ^{a b} Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
3. ^ ^{a b} Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 78–9. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
4. ^ London Gaxette November 1853
5. ^ London Gazette: no. 21585. p. 2598. 22 August 1854. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
6. ^ Craig, page 226
7. ^ Illustrated London News 1864
8. ^ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Armorial families

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Lushington

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Vacant Writ suspended (1853) Title last held by Henry Plumptre Gipps Henry Butler-Johnstone	Member of Parliament for Canterbury 1854 – 1857 With: Sir William Somerville, Bt	Succeeded by Henry Butler-Johnstone Sir William Somerville, Bt

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Name	Lushington, Charles Manners
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Date of birth	1 August 1819
Place of birth	Sanderstead, Surrey
Date of death	27 November 1864
Place of death	Boulogne