Montague Lush

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

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. 1 2 3 4 5 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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