Edmund Law Lushington (10 January 1811 – 13 July 1893) was a classical scholar, a professor of Greek, and Rector of the University of Glasgow.

He was the son of Edmund Henry Lushington of the Inner Temple, a judge in Ceylon, and his wife Sophia Phillips.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and as a Greek scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s.

A Fellow of Trinity College, Lushington went on to become a professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87).

Edward Lear made many gifts to the Lushington children included an album containing drawings of birds, animals and landscapes, which he presented to Zilly on her tenth birthday in 1855.