Vernon Lushington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British judge
Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1832
Place of Birth: Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1912
Profession: judge
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Vernon Lushington
- Vernon Lushington KC, (8 March 1832 – 24 January 1912), was a Positivist, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, and was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.
- He was a Cambridge Apostle. Lushington was born in Westminster, London, to Stephen and Sarah Grace (née Carr) Lushington; his twin brother was Godfrey Lushington, KCB GCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office.
- He was educated at East India College, Haileybury, Hertfordshire, and Trinity College, Oxford.
- He became a QC, a county court judge, Secretary to the Admiralty in 1871, and Deputy Judge Advocate General from 1878 to 1912.
- He married Jane Mowatt, daughter of Francis Mowatt, on 28 February 1865.
- From 1877 to 1903 the Lushington family's country residence was Pyports, Cobham, Surrey.With his brother Godfrey, he advocated positivist philosophy, motivated by the ideas of Auguste Comte, and was a follower of Frederic Harrison.
- Influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice, he joined the Working Men's College as a singing teacher, and promoter of art and music appreciation; he became part of the group that formed the first College governing Corporation in 1854.
- At the death of Maurice in 1872, he, with his brother, and Frederick James Furnivall, Thomas Hughes, and Richard Buckley Litchfield, became a unifying force at the College.He was a friend to artists, authors and activists, particularly those of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement who gravitated to the Working Men's College.
- In 1856, it was he who first introduced Edward Burne-Jones to Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his college rooms.
- Rossetti used Lushington’s wife, Jane, as a model in 1865.Lushington, friend of William Morris, was a frequent visitor to Kelmscott Manor.
- He was a close friend of Leslie Stephen and his family; Stephen’s daughter Virginia (later Woolf) based her character Mrs.
- Dalloway on Lushington’s daughter Kitty.
- He was also a close friend of Working Men’s College founder Richard Buckley Litchfield and his wife Etty, daughter of Charles Darwin; the Lushingtons were regular visitors to Darwin’s Down House.
- As Thomas Carlyle’s friend, he edited Carlyle’s first Collected Works, (Chapman and Hall, 1858).
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