Edmund Law Lushington (10 January 1811 – 13 July 1893) was a classical scholar, a professor of Greek, and Rector of the

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Life

Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in

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, England. He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington of the

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, a judge in Ceylon, and his wife Sophia Phillips. He was educated at Charterhouse School and as a

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scholar at

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, where he became a close friend of

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in the late 1820s. A Fellow of Trinity College, Lushington went on to become a professor of Greek at the

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(1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87). He died at Park House,

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, on 13 July 1893.

Family

On 14 October 1842, he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of

, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem ''In Memoriam'' (1850), an

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(nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest lifelong friends, as well as being his brother-in-law. He had four children: Edmund ("Eddy"), Cecilia ("Zilly"), Emily ("Emmy"), and Lucy. Edward Lear made many gifts to the Lushington children included an album containing drawings of birds, animals and landscapes, which he presented to Zilly on her tenth birthday in 1855.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lushington, Edmund 1811 births 1893 deaths People from Maidstone People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Glasgow Rectors of the University of Glasgow People from the Borough of Fylde