Modern English biography

_I.L.N. lix_ 507 (1871). LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). _b._ Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. _d._ at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. _Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols._ (1886); _F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller_ (1862); _Duffy’s League of North and South_ (1886) 330. LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, _d._ 1862). _b._ London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. _d._ 18 Dec. 1873. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p._ 654. LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. _d._ of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. _bur._ beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. _The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin_ (1874), _portrait_; _An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin_ (1874); _Journal of mental science_, _Oct. 1874 pp._ 361–72; _Popular science monthly_, _vi_ 301 (1874); _Graphic_, _ix_ 480 (1874), _portrait_. LUCAS, _John_ (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). _b._ London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. _d._ 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 473, 474 (1874), _portrait_. LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. _d._ Whitby, Sep. 1880. LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). _b._ 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. _d._ in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Jeddah. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 418–21, 465; _Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 766, _23 Dec. p._ 838. LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) _b._ Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (_m._ 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. _d._ 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. _H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas_ (1890), _portrait_. LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. _b._ 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. _d._ Pau, France 22 May 1856. LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). _b._ Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. _d._ Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883. LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). _b._ 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. _d._ 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 238, 271 (1887); _Morning Star 17 April 1865 p._ 4. LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). _b._ Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. _d._ Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 38 (1869). LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). _b._ Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. _d._ 29 March 1870. _Biographical catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 440–3. LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). _b._ Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. _d._ Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875. LUCENA, LORENZO. _b._ 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford