Susan Lushington

Susan Lushington (27 April 1870 – 16 February 1953) was a British musician and promoter of music. The Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society described her as "a woman of quite exceptional gifts, which she employed mainly in the cause of music," and as one whose "triumph was to make music alive, to show that it was not a thing apart, for the specialist only, but for the enjoyment of "as many as will"." She was made an MBE for her work with amateur musicians.

Early life Susan Lushington born on 27 April 1870, the youngest daughter of Vernon Lushington and Jane Lushington (née Mowatt). Her father Vernon Lushington was a distinguished lawyer and former member of the Cambridge Apostles.

After the death of their mother, the three girls were taken under the wing of Julia Stephen.

Musical activity Lushington was a founding member of the Folk Song Society in 1898, which later became the English Folk Dance and Song Society. It was "greatly due to her," they wrote, "that this pleasant part of rural England is now peculiarly music-minded and enlightened."