Susan Lushington, MBE

From PDF FORMAT: A Life Devoted to Music - Susan Lushington in Kingsley by Helen Penn Mirwald and Martha S Vogeler

From FreeBMD - Registration of birth of Female Lushington in 1870

April to June 1870: Registration of birth of Female Lushington; in Strand, London (Volume 1b, Page 558)

From British Newspaper Archive: Sun (London) Friday, 29 April 1870 Page 4 Births

Births: Lushington — On Wednesday, 27 April 1870 [inst.], at 21 New Street, Spring Gardens, St James', London SW1A 2WH 51.506336, -0.128776, the wife of Vernon Lushington, Esq., Q.C., of a daughter.

From Ancestry 18700807 baptism Susan Lushington b 18700427 dau Vernon L QC Secretary to the Admiralty & Jane Lushington at All Saints' Church Ockham Surrey by Seymour Neville

• 7 August 1870: baptism of Susan Lushington
• Born: 27 April 1870
• Father Vernon Lushington, Q.C. [Queen's Counsel] and Secretary to the Admiralty
• Mother Jane Lushington
• Residing at 21 New Street, Spring Gardens, London
• Baptised at [All Saints' Church, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Surrey GU23 6NL 51.2979847, -0.4716547], England
• Ceremony by Seymour Neville

From British Newspaper Archive: Carlisle Express and Examiner Saturday, 8 January 1887 Page 6 Concert at Brampton

Concert at Brampton. — A popular concert, promoted by Mrs. George Howard for the benefit of the Brampton Total Abstinence Brass Band, took place in the [Tweed Mill, Craw Hill, Brampton 54.9416479, -2.7310356] on Monday night, 3 January 1887, and passed off in a highly successful manner. Mr. George Howard, Naworth Castle, presided, and there was a large and appreciative audience. In the first part of the programme the Misses Lushington secured a hearty encore for their excellent rendering of a trio on violins, and later Miss Kitty Lushington came in for another encore for her violin solo. Mrs. Bell and Mr. Bentley also sang with good effect. The vocal trio "Three Jolly Sailor Boys" was very heartily encored. In the second part Mrs. Bell received an encore, as did also Mr. James Harding (late of the Royal Engineers) for his song "The Death of Nelson." The short farce Tweedledum and Tweedledee caused much laughter, Miss Howard ably representing the mystified girl unaccustomed to the sights of Wonderland. The Misses Lushington gave another violin trio, and were again encored, as was also Mr. Bentley, who was loudly cheered in responding with "The Charge of the Light Brigade." The proceeds amounted to close upon £13.

From Exploring Surrey's Past

From Susan Lushington letters - RBSC / OSC Archives

Material was purchased at Sotheby's auction by Major Greville Chester and given to Leonard Roberts.

Series consists of letters written by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) to Susan Lushington between 1898 and 1915, primarily between 1912 and 1915. Lushington's father was a patron of Hughes, and Susan herself purchased paintings from Hughes as an adult. Hughes also painted Susan with her sisters and mothers in 1884 ("The Home Quartette."). In his letters to Susan, Hughes writes about his paintings and illustrations and day-to-day life including visitors, correspondents and weather.

From The Lushington family: a photographic narrative - Surrey County Council

Vernon Lushington (1832-1912), an eminent lawyer and friend to artists, authors and activists, and his wife Jane (1834-1884) had three daughters: Susan Lushington (1870-1953), Margaret Lushington (1869-1906), who married Stephen Massingberd of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, and Katherine Lushington ‘Kitty’ (1867-1922) who married Leopold Maxse the journalist and political writer whose family lived at Dunley Hill near Effingham. ...

Royal events also feature including Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, preparations for the coronation of King Edward VII, and views of India which Susan Lushington visited for the Delhi Durbar in 1903.

From British Newspaper Archive: Hampshire Telegraph Friday, 15 December 1939 Page 6 Alton: Miss Lushington's final concert

[Ockham Park House, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Surrey GU23 6NL 51.2981667, -0.4732778] The last of the concerts arranged by Miss Susan Lushington at Ockham Hall was held on Saturday, 9 December 1939, and it can be safely said that this was the most successful of the nine she organised on behalf of artists hit by the war.

The concert opened with Brahm's Sextet In G Major by Miss Lushington, Ruth David, Barbara Crump, Eileen Beattie, Arthur Mew, and Robert Irving. The vocalist was Gabriele Joachim, and Natasha Litvin accompanied.

Mr. Robert Irving conducted Vivaldi's concerto for violin (with string orchestra) in A Minor, and the solo violinist was Marie-Elisa Thalmessinger. The classical programme concluded with Bach's suite to in C Major, with Edward Selwyn, son of the Dean of Winchester, playing first oboe, and Gramme Crump second oboe.

From British Newspaper Archive: Hampshire Telegraph Friday, 20 September 1940 Page 5 Headley: For Spitfire Fund

A very successful concert arranged by Mrs. Townley Parker and Miss Viola Crum in aid of the local Spitfire Fund was held at The Oaks on Saturday afternoon last, 14 September 1940. The artists were Miss Susan Lushington (violin) and Miss Viola Marghislain (soprano), assisted by local talent

From British Newspaper Archive: Hampshire Telegraph Friday, 4 July 1941 Page 5 "Messiah" at Bordon

Theatre Royal, Gordon Road, Aldershot, Hampshire 51.24755, -0.76401 "The Messiah" was given on Sunday evening, 29 June 1941, at Gordon Garrison Theatre, under the conductor-ship of Miss Susan Lushington. There were 120 performers in the chorus and band, of whom 22 were members of the Forces. Those taking part were drawn from as far afield as Petersfield, Churt, Frensham, Farnham, Alton and Aldershot. Soloists were Miss Bertha Mann (soprano), Miss Olive Christie, Mr. Arthur Gold (bass), a young soldier in the Queen's Regiment, and Mr. Hubert Langley (tenor). The trumpet solo was played by Corporal Vincent, of the Canadian Forces.

From Farnham and Bourne Choral Society Concert Archive 1940s 8 December 1946

• Sir C Hubert Parry “Oratorio Job”
• Charles Stanford “Songs of the Fleet”
• Performed in The Church House, Farnham
• Sung by The Farnham and Bourne Music Club Choral Society
• Conducted by: Susan Lushington MBE

NOTE: Blue Plaque Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) [17 Kensington Square, Kensington, London W8 5HH 51.5001341, -0.1897635]

NOTE: Vernon Lushington lived at [36 Kensington Square, Kensington, London W8 5HP 51.5008438, -0.1908343]

From British Newspaper Archive: Hampshire Telegraph Friday, 15 July 1949 Page 15 News from the Women's Institutes of two counties

Miss Susan Lushington, of Kingsley, entertained at the July meeting. She soon had members singing part songs and solos, and played old Irish airs on her violin. Tea hostesses were Mesdames Porter, Britton, Cartledge, and Wheeler, assisted by Miss Bridget Somerset-Ward. An outing to the Isle of Wight on August 9 was arranged.

From Letters and Papers of Susan Lushington - Lushington Family of Ockham and Cobham, Surrey, and also of Hampshire and London: Correspondence and Papers - Archives Hub

From British Newspaper Archive: Portsmouth Evening News Monday, 29 January 1951 Page 2 British Concerto was new (By our music critic)

A Most interesting concert was given in the [Town Hall, Petersfield, Hampshire 51.0039279, -0.9321613], on Saturday, 27 January 1951, by the Petersfield Orchestra, conducted by Kathleen Merrit, with Joseph Cooper, piano.

One of the main attractions was the first performance of a new Piano Concerto by Phillip Cannon, an English composer, and pupil of Gordon Jacob. ...

After 57 Years

The strings were conducted by Susan Lushington in four movements from Parry's "Lady Radnor" suite. Miss Lushington was one of the players in the first performance of the suite in 1894, and the vigour of her directions and certainty of her interpretation might well be the envy of much younger musicians.

From Susan Lushington (1870-1953) National Trust Collections

Pencil and chalk drawing on paper, [of] Susan Lushington (1870 - 1953) One of three pencil and chalk drawings of the Lushington sisters as sketches for the finished composition in oils 'The Home Quartet'. Ebonised reeded frames. a) Kitty, Mrs Leo Maxse - standing facing with violin leaning slightly against a piece of furniture in a calf-length dress. Bobbed hair; b) Susan - standing facing right, calf-length dress,long hair; c) Margaret, Mrs Stephen Massingberd, seated, facing with her 'cello and shoulder length hair tied back.

Makers and roles: Arthur Hughes (London 1832 - Kew 1915), artist

From FreeBMD - Registration of death of Susan Lushington in 1953

January to March 1953: Registration of death of Susan Lushington; aged 82 [born about 1871]; in Petersfield, Hampshire (Volume 6b, Page 485)

From British Newspaper Archive: West Sussex Gazette Thursday, 26 March 1953 Page 3 Farnham

Memorial Service for Miss Susan Lushington

A memorial service for Miss Susan Lushington was held at Farnham Parish Church (Church of St Mary, Church Road, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire SL2 3AW 51.5352, -0.6148) on Saturday evening, 21 March 1953. The Rector of Farnham and Rural Dean (the Rev. O. N. Selby-Lowndes) said the prayers and the Rev. N. G. Powell. of Broughton Rectory, Stockbridge, former Vicar of Kingsley, said in a tribute that Miss Lushington brought to her music the complete devotion and dedication of her whole life.

The music of the service was in accordance with the expressed wish of Miss Lushington and included Brahms's Requiem sung by a choir formed by representatives of Farnham and Bourne and Alton choral societies, Alton Operatic Society and Frensham and Petersfield Women's Institutes. Conductors were Dr. John Seddon and Sir Gilmour Jenkins. The soloist was Bertha Hann (soprano) and the organist David Kettle. The orchestra was led by Patricia Cassidy. Relatives present were Mr. Godfrey Lushington Norris, Miss Ruth Watson, Miss Eleanor Norris and Miss Joyce Watson (cousins).

From British Newspaper Archive: The Sphere Saturday, 28 February 1953 Page 7 A London Newsletter

Susan Lushington.- Miss Susan Lushington's long life must be reckoned as both happy and useful. For most of it she brought music and culture to those who once sat in darkness on the borders of Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey. And it is greatly due to her that this pleasant part of rural England is now peculiarly music-minded and enlightened.

She was one of the three talented daughters of Judge Vernon Lushington, son of a more famous Lushington, and she and her sisters were brought up to an appreciation of music, art and literature in a pre-Raphaelite circle of famous artists, singers and writers. One of my abiding memories fixes her playing the piano at Hatfield to the delight of week-end parties there. They never could have enough of her playing, and no more picturesque and charming figure ever "presided over the instrument."

Miss Susan turned her talents to producing and to the training of amateur orchestras, and her great triumph was perhaps her production of Fidelio (no less) at Alton in 1924. Even the ranks of the London music critics, who no doubt came down to be kind and humorous, could scarce forbear to cheer so magnificent an effort. And so for decades she went on to Bach, Gluck and Purcell, and had she lived, she would have given us a notable Brahms' Requiem in her eighty-third year. It would have brought her musical career full circle, for it was the Requiem of Brahms which she conducted in 1906 in Spilsby Church in memory of her sister, Margaret Massingberd, which set her on her road.

From Ancestry probate

Tuesday, 4 January 1955 probate of Susan Lushington M.B.E. of Ockham Hall, Kingsley, Bordon, Hampshire, spinster, who died Monday, 16 February 1953, at Royal Steep, Petersfield, probate granted at London on Tuesday, 4 January 1955 to Godfrey Lushington Norris, solicitor, and Ruth Watson, spinster. Effects £5476 15s. 2d. Further grant Monday, 12 January 1976

From Ancestry probate

Monday, 12 January 1976 probate of Susan Lushington of Ockham Hall, Kingsley, Bordon, Hampshire who died Monday, 16 February 1953, probate granted (administration with will) at London on Monday, 12 January 1976. Effects £0 Former Grant proved Tuesday, 4 January 1955