Thomas Lushington

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LINEAGE OF LUSHINGTON, OF SiTTINGBOURNE.

AUGUSTINE LESSENDEN or LUSHINGTON, of Sittingbourne, Kent, 2nd son of Stephen Lushington and Ann his wife, who made her will 1620, then a widow, had, besides an elder son (John, of Sarre, yeoman), 3 daughters, of whom one married to Andrew Langley, and another married to John Hawkes. Augustine, by his wife Priscilla, was father of

THOMAS LUSHINGTON, of Sittingbourne, possessed the manor of Rodmersham, Kent ; baptized at Sittingbourne, 16 June, 1628; died 13 Oct., 1688, aged 61, buried at Sittingbourne, M.I. ; he mairried 1st, Anne, daughter of Stephen Tomlyn, of Chilton, Kent ; she died at the birth of 3 children, 1st March, 1678, buried at Sittingbourne, 14th March, M.I. ; he married in 1688, Elizabeth, daughter of — Johnson, widow ; by his 1st wife he had 7 sons and 6 daughters.

[1] Thomas, baptized at Sittingbourne, 2 Oct., 1659 ; died unmarried 30 Dec., buried at Sittingbourne, 5 May, 1698-9, (2) and (3] Twin sons, buried unbaptized 8 Feb., 1660. [4] John, died unmarried 9, buried at Sittingbourne 15 May, 1695, aged 29. (5] William, died young. (6) STEPHEN, of whom presently. (7) Augustine, baptized at Sittingbourne (with his sisters Priscilla and Jane), 24 Feb., 1678; buried there 2 March following. [8] Mary, baptized at Sittingbourne, i June, 1662 ; died 25 Oct., 1741, aged 80 ; married to Richard May, of Canterbury, and had issue. [9] Ann, baptized at Sittingbourne, Z2 Dec, 1667; married to (George) Walker, of Maidstone. [10] Jane, died 28 May, 1674, aged 4, buried at Sittingbourne. (11) Priscilla, died 8 Aug., 1677. [12] Priscilla and [13] Jane, baptized with their brother Augustine at Sittingbourne, 24 Feb. , 1678, and buried with him 2 March following.

Heir to Reverend Thomas Lushington, Thomas Browne's Oxford tutor, of Sittingbourn, Kent.

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In 1637 Thomas Browne was living in Norwich. He had several acquaintances in Norfolk including Sir Nicholas Bacon, Justinian Lewyn and Sir Charles le Gros, who had been his contemporaries at Oxford, but it was probably his former tutor, Dr. Thomas Lushington, who had come to Norwich in 1633 as chaplain to Bishop Corbet, who persuaded him to start his professional life in Norwich.

From: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/browne_bio/wood_1692.html

Thomas Lushington: According to Wood, 171-172: "Thomas Lushington a famous Scholar of his time, was born at Sandwych in Kent, matriculated in the University, as a member of Broadgates Hall, in Lent term, 1606/7 aged 17 years, but how long he stayed there, it appears not. Sure it is, that he having had some publick employment in the Country or elsewhere, did not take the degree of Bachelaur, nor that of Master of Arts till 1618, in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again, and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke, where he spent some years in Theological studies, took the degree of Bach. of Div. and soon after, for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for, made, him one of this Chaplains. In June 1631, he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury, on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon, and in the year following proceeding in his faculty, the said Bishop took him with him when he was translatd to Norwych, bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk, and got him to be chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out, he lost his spiritualities, and lived obscurely in several places, publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2, in 1660, he was restored to his spiritualities, and had offers mad eto him of great dignities int he Church ,but being then aged and infirm, he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness, then be a Dean with riches. He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist, yet in many matters imprudent, and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus. ... At length our Author retiring in his last days to some of his relations living at Sittingbourne near Milton in Kent, where he lived for some time in great retiredness, surrendred up his soul to God on 22 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, aged 72 years, and was buried in the fourth Chancel of the Church there. Over his grave was soon after set up against the fourth wall of the said Chancel a comely monument, containing an arch of Alabaster supported by two pillars of black marble; between which is the statue or bust to the middle of our Author Lushington in his Doctor's gown, holding his right hand on his breast, and having in his left a book, leaning on a cusheon. Over his head is an Urne, and under him a square table of black marble, with a large Inscription thereon, beginnig thus, Siste viator, raro calcabis doctos simul & mansuetos cineres, &c. Under all are piles of books. On the stone that covers his grave is another Inscription, beginning thus, Hic jacet Thomas Lushingtonus olim Collegii Lincolniensis & Pembr. &c. The copies of both which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 335.b. in the first of which is an high character given of him."