Lushington baronets

Lushington baronets
CrestA Lion’s Head erased Vert charged on the erasure with three ermine spots Or ducally gorged Argent
ShieldOr on a Fess wavy between three Lions' Heads erased Vert langued Gules as many Ermine Spots of the Field.

The Lushington baronetcy, of South Hill Park in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the baronetage of Great Britain, created on 26 April 1791 for Sir Stephen Lushington MP.

Dr Stephen Lushington, second son of the 1st Baronet, was an Admiralty Judge and MP; Charles Lushington, youngest son of the 1st Baronet, also served as a Member of Parliament.

Sir Henry Lushington, 2nd Baronet was HM Consul-General to Naples from 1815 until 1832,[1] and father of Sir Henry Lushington, 3rd Baronet, Justice of the Peace.[2]

The 2nd Baronet's second son was Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington and his youngest son, Frederick Astell Lushington JP (1815–1892) by his wife Lady Margaret Hay, was grandfather of Sir Herbert Castleman Lushington, 6th Baronet (1879–1968) who married Pamela Hunter.[3]

Lushington baronets, of South Hill Park (1791)

  • Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st Baronet (1744–1807)
  • Sir Henry Lushington, 2nd Baronet (1775–1863)
  • Sir Henry Lushington, 3rd Baronet (1803–1897)
  • Sir Henry Lushington, 4th Baronet (1826–1898)
  • Sir Andrew Patrick Douglas Lushington, 5th Baronet (1861–1937)
  • Sir Herbert Castleman Lushington, 6th Baronet (1879–1968)[4]
  • Sir Henry Edmund Castleman Lushington, 7th Baronet (1909–1988)
  • Sir John Richard Castleman Lushington, 8th Baronet (born 1938);

The heir apparent is the present baronet's eldest son Squadron Leader Richard Douglas Longfield Lushington (born 1968).[5]

References

  1. ^ www.cambridge.org
  2. ^ www.burkespeerage.com
  3. ^ www.charlesglass.net
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage. 1970.
  5. ^ www.grocershall.co.uk

Further reading

  • Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (1990 edition). Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). New York: St Martin's Press.