LUBY, Thomas (son of John Luby). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. d. 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. bur. Aberystwith. Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p. 524.
LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). b. St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. d. 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser. (1860), portrait; Nolan’s Russian war, i 544–50, ii 725 (1855), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 36–40; I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp. 429–30, portrait; Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp. 542, 544, portrait.
Note.—At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, ii 379, iii 235, iv 5, v 3, vii 471, ix 354 (1877).
LUCAS, Charles (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). b. 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. d. Devizes 1854.
LUCAS, Charles (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). b. Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. d. 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. bur. Woking cemet. 27 March. Mag. of Music, Oct. 1890 p. 183, portrait; W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 306.
LUCAS, Charles. b. 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. d. 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.
LUCAS, Edward (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, d. 1796). b. 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. d. Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1846), portrait; 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.