519 Sir Andrew Lusk

Constituency : Finsbury  1865-85

Andrew  replaced  Samuel  Peto  at  Finsbury.

Andrew  hailed  from  Scotland  and  was  a  Presbyterian  merchant  and  shipowner. He  was  also  a director  of  the Imperial  Bank  and  an  insurance  company. He  was  also  an  alderman  in  the  City  of London.

Andrew  was  Lord  Mayor  of  London  from  1873  to  1874. He  was  created  a  baronet  in  1874. He was  known  as  a  Radical. However  he  declined  to  join  the  Reform  demonstration  on  Primrose  Hill in  1866. He  also  defended  the  notorious  London  vestries  from  interference.

Andrew  stood  down  in  1885; after  1886  he  was  a  Liberal  Unionist. In  1889  he  served  on  a Committee  of  Conciliation  to  try  and  end  the  dock  strike.

He  died  in  1909  aged  98.