Montague Lush

Sir Charles Montague Lush (7 December 1853 – 22 June 1930) was a British judge.


Sir Montague Lush
Justice of the High Court
In office
6 October 1910  20 May 1925
Personal details
Born
Charles Montague Lush

(1853-12-07)7 December 1853
Hampstead, Middlesex
Died22 June 1930(1930-06-22) (aged 76)
Stanmore, Middlesex
Spouse(s)
Jane Smith
(m. 1893; died 1925)
RelationsSir Robert Lush (father)
Children6
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge

The son of the judge Sir Robert Lush, Lush was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took a First in Classics in 1876.[1] He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1879, and joined the North Eastern Circuit. He took silk in 1902.[1]

In 1910, Lush was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the King's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood on 13 October 1910.[2] In 1915 he was appointed as President of the Railway and Canal Commission.[1] He retired from the bench in 1925 due to deafness, and was made a Privy Counsellor the same year, although he never sat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.[1]

Although highly regarded as a barrister, he was not a successful judge: he was said to be too diffident and sometimes let personal feelings influence his decisions.[1]

References

  1. Mathew, Theobald; Mooney, Hugh. "Lush, Sir (Charles) Montague (1853–1930)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34635. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "No. 28424". The London Gazette. 14 October 1910. p. 7247.
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