The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-25 00:00:00

DEATH OF DR. LIISHINGTON,

Dr Leshington, for very many years eminent al a pleader
and autheri•ative as sludge In the Courts of At miralty cud
of ecclesiastical discipline and appeal, died On nunday morn-
ing at his residence, Ockham Park, Surrey, In Ms ninety-
first year. Ile had for acme year., owing to ill health, ceased
to perform his usual duties on the Bein.h. The Daily Tele-
yropA gives the following sketch of Dr. Lushingtun's distin-
guished outer:—

Death hag carried off Dr. Lushington in hhaninety.
first year. It may be said of lim that if be never
rose to the highest eminence In law or statesmanship,
ho livrd a fell life, and never slackened his labour in
the public service. Conspicrons for steady industry
and moderation, he contrived to avoid the evil of et.
tremse, and bald a middle place between -conflicting
iarties. Nevertheless, he was from first to last a
stanneh Liberal. Ito Wilei one who advocated popu-
lar franchisee when it required some courage to
profess that faith- - in the days, to wit. of Pei cival
and Liverpool, of Peterloo and the trial of Queen
Caroline ; when there were real conspirators in
London and "blanketerrs" in the Northern Counties;
when to profess mild Radicalism, or even moderate
Whiggism, was an offence against "society," and a bar
to legal promotion. Dr. Lushington was a eteady
helper on the Liberal, or, as it was then called, the
Reforming aide, from 1820 to 1841. The Ministry f
1829 made him Judge of tins Consistory Court, and ten
years after, when the Whigs were in power, he
was appointed Judge of the High Court of Ad-
miralty. It is as a lawyer and Judge that Dr.
Lunhiegtm will be known to posterity. He was
a profound schnler in his own branches of the law, and
he brought a fine, clear, impartial intellect to bear on
the f este placed judicially before him. His d•leinue
are numerous and wound, marked by strong cumnon
• mine and unswerving fairness. Perhaps it wee the con-
fidence his dna re and reticent character inepired, that
!IWO Lady Byron setdesot him as an adviser, and en•
Cruet bite wit, a aecret which may haws died with
him. The present generation hae utterly forgotten
hie early and has Parliamentary career, but he'

in yet wells'mown to .them,-because hs• taken
a prominent part in those great loclesiastical
cameo which have so disturbed the Church if
England during the last thirty years. As a Judge
and Privy Councillor, he maintained the broad and
safe principles of law which prevent the Church from
becoming the property of any section among the many
who find shelter within its ample fold. His last
public act was a journey to Oxfurd in order that he
might oppose the narrow partisans who wanted to
exclude Dean Stanley frrm the Univeniity pulpit.
Bore six years before the French Revolution, he yet
stirvived the Third Napoleon by a few days. He lived
to FPP the face of Europe changed: America become
the home of • great nation; British power in
India sweep up to the Afghan Mountains; and
s'eain and electricity girdle the planet. Few left
among /is who have taken *considerable share in ; üblio
life lave witnessed as rosily' revolutions as the vener-
ablelawyer. who has just quitte I the ever-chancing
scene, He /eaves a memory which commands respect,
and an exaniPle bright with the results of unfl igging
intinstry, high pur; ose, and upright, manly conduct,
maintained without • flaw throughout • life longer than
that which usually fella to the lot of num. -