Men-at-the-Bar/Lushington, Godfrey

by Joseph Foster

Lushington, Godfrey, assistant under-secretary of state home department since 26 March, 1876, counsel to Home Office 30 Oct., 1869-76, secretary to Law Digest Commission 1867, author of Naval Prize Law, M.A. Balliol Coll., Oxon, (fellow) All Souls' Coll., Oxon, from Rugby, a student of the Inner Temple 18 April, 1849 (then aged 17), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1858 (5th son of Rt. Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., judge of consistory court and a master of the bench); born 8 March, 1832; married 3 June, 1865, Beatrice Anne Shore, dau. of Samuel Smith, Esq., of Embley, Romsey, Hants (see Foster's Baronetage).

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