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Sir Robert Lush (25 October 1807 – 27 December 1881) was an English judge who served on many Commissions and Committees of Judges. [1] [2]
Born at Shaftesbury, he was educated at Gray's Inn before being called to the Bar in 1840. He earned a reputation as a sound and acute barrister, specially familiar with procedure. He was appointed QC in 1857, and was immediately elected a Bencher of Gray's Inn. He became a Justice of the Queen's Bench and was knighted in 1865; he was sworn a member of the Privy Council in 1879. He was a life-long baptist. [2]
He married in 1839, Elizabeth Ann (died 16 March 1881), [3] the eldest daughter of Rev Christopher Woollacott, of London. They had several children, including Judge Herbert W. Lush-Wilson, KC, and Sir Charles Montague Lush (1853–1930), who married Margaret Abbie Locock, fourth daughter of Charles Brodie Locock; in 1913 he sentenced Emmeline Pankhurst.
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References
- ^ Hamilton, John Andrew (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b "Right Hon Sir Robert Lush". The Cornishman. No. 183. 5 January 1882. p. 8.
- ^ "Lady Lush". The Cornishman. No. 140. 17 March 1881. p. 5.
- ^ Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.
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