Authorised form of name | Lushington; Edmund Henry (1776 - 1839) |
Dates | 1776 - 1839 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | St Peter's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
Date of birth | 11 July 1776 |
Date of death | 27 March 1839 |
Occupation | Lawyer; colonial administrator |
Activity | Education: Queen's College, University of Cambridge, MA Career: One of the Puisne judges at Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Board of Audit; Master of the Crown Office
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 18/03/1824 |
Age at election | 47 |
Relationships | Second son of Rev James Lushington of Rodmersham, Kent, and his wife Mary Law, daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle Married: 1) (02 January 1801) Louisa, daughter of Faulkner Philips of Manchester (died 1801); 2) (02 April 1810) Sophia , daughter of Thomas Philips of Sedgeley near Manchester (died 1841) |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll AssocMaterial: Some letters of Lushington'scan be found in the Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1839 No 40 pp 177-178 Notes: The obituary in the Proceeding of the Royal Society, 1839 incorrectly lists the name of the deceased Fellow as Edmund Law Lushington who was in fact the son of Edward Henry Lushington FRS. The biographical details correctly relate to E H Lushington and the correct name is given in the list of deceased Fellows at the beginning of the volume. |
Code | NA1211 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1823/24 | Lushington, Edmund Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |