Biography of Dr. Stephen Lushington

Dr. Stephen Lushington


Dr. Stephen Lushington
Son of East India Company director.

Date (from)	(Date to)	Event
14 January 1782		Born (South Hill Park, Berkshire).
26 October 1797		Matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford.
1801	1821	Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
1802		B.A.
1806		M.A.
7 February 1806		Called to the bar of Inner Temple.
November 1806	June 1808	M.P. (whig) for Great Yarmouth (until he resigned).
1807		B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law).
23 February 1807		Spoke in favour of the Slave Trade Abolition Bill.
1808		D.C.L. (Doctor of Civic Law).
3 November 1808		Member of the College of Advocates ('Doctors Commons').
1817		Acted for Lady Byron in her separation from Lord Byron.
1820		Counsel for Queen Caroline at her trial.
March 1820		M.P. for Ilchester.
8 August 1821		Married Sarah Grace, daughter of Thomas William Carr of Frognal, Hampstead, and close friend of Lady Byron (mother of his five sons and five daughters, died 20 Sep 1837).
1823	1845	Committee Member of the The Society for the Mitigation and gradual Abolition of Slavery through the British Dominions (later called the London Anti-Slavery Society), and its successor (1839) The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
April 1825		One of the founders of the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
June 1826		M.P. for Tregony, Cornwall.
16 February 1828	1867	Judge of the Consistory (ecclesiastical) Court of London.
1830		Stood unsuccesfully as M.P. for Reading.
1831	1832	M.P. for Wnchelsea.
1832	1841	M.P. for Tower Hamlets, London.
17 October 1838	1867	Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.
5 November 1838		Member of the Privy Council.
1839	1841	Member of the Patrons of Africa, formed to lobby for the eventual 1841 Niger expedition.
1841		His motion to bring in bill for abolition of capital punishment defeated.
1842		President of Committee to draw up Instructions for the guidance of naval officers employed in the supression of the slave trade.
1858	1867	Judge of the Court of Arches (ecclesiastical appeal court).
1858	1873	Master of the Faculties (died in office).
2 July 1858	1867	Dean of the Arches (President of Doctors Commons); (but the Commons were efectively dissolved soon after his appointment, when civil law ceased to be a separate branch of the legal profession).
19 January 1873		Died (Ockham Park, Surrey, aged 92).
Literature: (DNB; Waddams).

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