page_title: Stephen Lushington (judge)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Lushington (judge) / Family
caption_attribution_description: Sketches by Sarah Grace Carr during a tour of Wales in 1819. Drawing volumes DV DV398 (4to)
context_page_description: Stephen Lushington was a British judge, Member of Parliament and a radical for the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. He served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 to 1867.
context_section_description: Lushington married in 1821 Sarah Grace Carr (1794–1837), daughter of the lawyer Thomas William Carr (1770–1829); her mother Frances was a good friend of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, who addressed her piece True Magicians to Sarah whom she mentored. The couple had ten children, five daughters and five sons. Sarah was the eldest in a family of five daughters and three sons.
  The sons included:
  Edward Harbord Lushington (1822–1904)
  William Bryan Lushington (born 1824), barrister.
  Stephen Lushington (1830–1860), died at Puri.
  The twins Vernon Lushington (1832–1912) and Godfrey Lushington (1832–1907). After Sarah's death in 1837, they were brought up at Ockham Park by one of Sarah's sisters. According to an 1838 letter of Joanna Baillie, in 1838 a Miss Carr lived with Stephen Lushington and cared for the whole family.
caption: Sarah Grace Carr, 1819 sketch of the bridge at Builth
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