Robert Lush

The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Lush
"A little lush"
Lush as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, May 1873

Sir Robert Lush (25 October 1807 – 27 December 1881) was an English judge who served on many Commissions and Committees of Judges.[1][2]

Born at Shaftesbury, he was educated at Gray's Inn before being called to the Bar in 1840. He earned a reputation as a sound and acute barrister, specially familiar with procedure. He was appointed QC in 1857, and was immediately elected a Bencher of Gray's Inn. He became a Justice of the Queen's Bench and was knighted in 1865; he was sworn a member of the Privy Council in 1879. He was a life-long baptist.[2]

He married in 1839, Elizabeth Ann (died 16 March 1881),[3] the eldest daughter of Rev Christopher Woollacott, of London. They had several children, including Judge Herbert W. Lush-Wilson, KC, and Sir Charles Montague Lush (1853–1930), who married Margaret Abbie Locock, fourth daughter of Charles Brodie Locock; in 1913 he sentenced Emmeline Pankhurst.

  1. ^ Hamilton, John Andrew (1893). "Lush, Robert" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34.
  2. ^ a b "Right Hon Sir Robert Lush". The Cornishman. No. 183. 5 January 1882. p. 8.
  3. ^ "Lady Lush". The Cornishman. No. 140. 17 March 1881. p. 5.