3-053-514 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Hon. Andrew Lusk, M.P., Lord Mayor of London, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Disderi. The Right Hon. Andrew Lusk, M. P., who has this week begun his tenure of the highest municipal office as Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year, in succession to Sir Sydney H. Waterlow, is a native of Ayrshire, being a son of the late Mr. John Lusk, of Barr, near Girvan, in that county. He was born in 1813, and has been many years engaged in commercial pursuits in London, as a "general merchant and ships' provision dealer," in Fenchurch-street, and also at Wapping. He was chosen a Common Councilman about twenty years ago, and was elected Alderman of the Ward of Aldgate in 1863, having served as one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex two years previously. Mr. Alderman Lusk has sat in Parliament as M.P. for Finsbury in the advanced Liberal interest since July, 1865, as the colleague of Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens. He is married to Eliza, daughter of Mr. James Potter, of Falkirk, North Britain'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.