John Arthur Lush (11 November 1881 – 8 September 1964) was Archdeacon of Southland from 1933 until 1962.Notes to Charles Spear Collected Poems, edited and with an afterword by Peter Simpson with images by Tony Lane University of Auckland, Holloway Press, 2007
Lush was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907. After curacies in West Hartlepool and Bishopwearmouth he was a Chaplain to the New Zealand Armed Forces from 1916The Evening Post (New Zealand), Volume XCI, Issue 122, 24 May 1916, Page 5 to 1918. He was Vicar of Havelock from 1911 to 1921 and then of St John, Invercargill until his appointment as Archdeacon.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 727: Oxford, OUP, 1959
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