Edmund Law Lushington
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Edmund Law Lushington was a classical scholar, a Professor of Greek, and Rector of the University of Glasgow
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Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Park House, Kent
, England
. He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington (Bencher of the Inner Temple, Puisne Judge in Ceylon, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Audit Board, Master of the Crown Office) and Sophia Phillips. Lushington was educated at Charterhouse
and as a Greek
scholar at Trinity College
, Cambridge
, where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s.
On 14 October 1842 he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of Alfred Lord Tennyson, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem In Memoriam (1850), an epithalamium
(nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest life-long friends, as well as being his brother-in-law.
A Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Lushington went on to become a Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow
(1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87).
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.
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
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Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Park House, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, England
England
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. He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington (Bencher of the Inner Temple, Puisne Judge in Ceylon, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Audit Board, Master of the Crown Office) and Sophia Phillips. Lushington was educated at Charterhouse
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...
and as a Greek
Greece
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scholar at Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s.
On 14 October 1842 he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of Alfred Lord Tennyson, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem In Memoriam (1850), an epithalamium
Epithalamium
Epithalamium refers to a form of poem that is written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber...
(nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest life-long friends, as well as being his brother-in-law.
A Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Lushington went on to become a Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
(1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87).
He had four children: Edmund ("Eddy"), Cecilia ("Zilly"), Emily ("Emmy"), and Lucy. Edward Lear
Edward Lear
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...
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.