Sir Charles Montague Lush (7 December 1853 – 22 June 1930) was a British barrister and judge.

Biography

The son of the judge Sir Robert Lush, Lush was educated at

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and at

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, where he took a

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in Classics in 1876. He was called to the bar by

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in 1879, and joined the North Eastern Circuit. He

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in 1902. In 1910, Lush was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the

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, receiving the customary

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on 13 October 1910. In 1915 he was appointed as President of the

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. He retired from the bench in 1925 due to deafness, and was made a Privy Counsellor the same year, although he never sat on the

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. Although highly regarded as a barrister, he was not a successful judge: he was said to be too diffident and sometimes let personal feelings influence his decisions.

Arms

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lush, Montague 1853 births 1930 deaths Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor English King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Queen's Bench Division judges