Stephen Rumbold Lushington

Stephen Rumbold Lushington (6 May 1776 – 5 August 1868) was an English Tory politician and an administrator in India. He was governor of Madras from 1827 to 1835. Early life He was born at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, the son of the Rev. James Stephen Lushington of Rodmersham and his second wife, Mary Christian, daughter of the Rev. Humphrey Christian. He was educated at Rugby School, and was in India from 1792. Initially he was a translator. In England from 1807, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Canterbury at the 1807 general election, but in July that year he was elected at an uncontested by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Rye in Sussex. At the 1812 general election he was returned without a contest for Canterbury, and held that seat until the 1830 general election. He was Secretary to the Treasury from 1814 to 1827. Lushington owned Norton Court in Norton, Kent, where he knew Jane Austen, and founded nearby schools.