Charles Manners Lushington (27 April 181927 November 1864) was an English

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politician who sat in the

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from 1854 to 1857.

Background and education

Lushington was born on 27April 1819 at 4 Cleveland Square,

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, the youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington and Anne Elizabeth, . He was educated at

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, graduating in 1843 with a MA, and later elected Fellow of

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. He served in the East Kent

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of which he became captain in November 1853.

Political career

He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Canterbury at a by-election in August 1854, after the borough's

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had been suspended when a

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found that there had been extensive corruption. Lushington held the seat until the 1857 general election, which he did not contest. At the 1859 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Nottingham.

Family

On 5May 1846, Lushington married Henrietta Stafford Northcote, daughter of Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, 7th Baronet and Agnes Mary Cockburn, at Trinity Church,

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. She died on 20January 1900 (aged 79) at

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. Formerly of Norton Court, Kent, he died on at

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, Northern France. Their daughter Agnes married

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in 1870.

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* , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Lushington, Charles Manners 1819 births 1864 deaths Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford UK MPs 1852–1857 Politics of Canterbury Royal East Kent Yeomanry officers People from Bayswater People from Sanderstead 19th-century British Army personnel Military personnel from the City of Westminster