LUSHINGTON, Stephen Rumbold (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, d. 1801). b. Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. d. Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington (1841).
LUTHER, Robert. b. 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. d. Acton 7 Sep. 1862. Sporting Review, xlviii 412–13 (1862).
LÜTHY, Robert (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). b. Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. d. Bolton 3 July 1884. Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers (1884) 403–4.
LUTTON, Anne (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). b. Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. d. Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. Memorials of a consecrated life (1883), portrait; Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb (1886).
LUTTRELL, Alexander Fownes (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). b. 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. d. 12 Oct. 1888.
LUTTRELL, Henry (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). b. 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme 1820. d. 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits of him at Holland House and at White’s club. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries (1889) passim; St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1878 pp. 43–52.
LUTTRELL, Henry Acland Fownes (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell 1793–1888). b. 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8 June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. d. Badgworth court, Axbridge, Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.
LUTTRELL, Henry Fownes (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816, M.P.) b. 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812; M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. d. Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.
LUTWIDGE, Robert Wilfred Skeffington (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). b. London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. d. Salisbury 28 May 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 3 June. Law Times, lv 127 (1873).
LUXFORD, George. b. Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to 1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44; sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. d. Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 426 (1855).