PART III: Kitty: (1867–1922)
16 A Charmed Childhood
17 The Home Quartette
18 Toward the Lighthouse: A Broken Engagement
19 The Lighthouse and Beyond: Marriage
20 “Mrs. Dalloway”
PART IV: Epilogue: Susan (1870–1953)
21 The Last of the Lushingtons
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| APS | American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia |
| BL | British Library |
| Bodleian | Bodleian Library |
| Comte Archive | Musée d’Auguste Comte, Paris |
| CUL | Cambridge University Library |
| Harvard | Houghton Library, Harvard University |
| LSE | London School of Economics |
| NAL | V&A National Art Library |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
| NYP | New York Public Library |
| ONDB | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| SHC | Surrey History Centre |
| TC | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| TNA | National Archives, London |
| JR | John Rylands University Library of Manchester |
| WSRO | West Sussex Record Office |
| Yale | Beinecke Library, Yale University |
Lushington Family Tree
Carr Family Tree
Published Works of Vernon Lushington
How Shall the Strong Man Use His Strength? Or, the Right Duty of War, with Application to the Present Crisis. Bell and Daldy, London.
1856, June “Carlyle” in the Oxford & Cambridge Magazine. London: Bell & Daldy.
1876 August Comte. System of Positive Polity. London: Longmans, Green. Vernon and Godfrey Lushington translated Vols. III, VII and the Conclusion.
1883 Mozart (An Address to the Positivist Society delivered at Newton Hall on December 24th, 1882). London: Reeves & Turner, 1885.
1883 The Day of All the Dead (An Address to the Positivist Society Delivered at Newton Hall on December 31st, 1882). London: Reeves & Turner.
1885 Shakespeare (An Address to the Positivist Society Delivered at Stratford-on-Avon on August 2nd, 1885). London: Reeves & Turner.
1885 Positivist Hymns (Printed for private circulation). London: Chiswick Press.
1886 The Worship of Humanity (An Address on the Anniversary of the Death of August Comte Given at Newton Hall on September 5th, 1886). London: Reeves & Turner.
1886 St. Paul (Poem printed for private circulation). London: Chiswick Press.
1886 Moses (Poem printed for private circulation). London: Chiswick Press.
1886 A Slab in Rome (Poem printed for private circulation). London: Chiswick Press.
1890 Lushington contributed eight hymns to Ethel Bertha Hrrson (ed.) Service of Man: Hymns and Poems. London: Newton Hall.
1892 Lushington contributed forty-nine biographies to Frederic Harrson (ed.) The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages and Nations in the Positivist Caldendr of Auguste Comte. London: Macmillan & Co.
1896 Remembered Words (Poems printed for private circulation). London: Chiswick Press.
Articles in the Positivist Review
1896, May. Vol. IV. “A Commemoration of Burns”: An address given at Newton Hall on March 22nd 1896.
1901, July. Vol. IX. “Sonnets on the Positivist Calendar” (Afterwards reprinted for private circulation).
1906, September. Vol. XIV. “Dr Bridges. His Contributon to the New Calendar of Great Men”.
Legal
Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England and on Appeal to the Privy Council, 1859–1862. Vernon Lushington.
1868 Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England and on Appeal to the Privy Council, 1863–1865. Ernst Brown & Vernon Lushington.
1903 Lynch’s Case. London: Chiswick Press.
This book has been long in the making. I first became aware of the Lushington family when, in 1982, I set out to write a book about a house named “Pyports” in the small Surrey town of Cobham where I have lived all my life. “Pyports” proved to be a fascinating place which had been home to a number of interesting and, sometimes, well-known people. The house took its name from a family called Pypard who lived there in the fourteenth century. Nineteenth-century local records revealed that the house had once been home to a family named Lushington. This was an unusual surname and I needed to find out who they were. A letter in the correspondence pages of Country Life rewarded me with a large response from people who had either known the family personally, or who knew of them through a variety of reasons. I found references to Lushington in many biographies of well-known nineteenth-century figures as well as in other books dealing with the social, cultural and literary history of the nineteenth century.
A reference linking Vernon Lushington to the Pre-Raphaelites led me to Diana Holman-Hunt, granddaughter of the artist. A meeting with this gracious old lady at her Kensington home brought a number of reminisces and stories
