Brief profile of M.P.Lucas by Don Ambrose

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Player:

MP Lucas

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LUCAS, Morton Peto.
Amateur.
Born at Clapham Common, London, 24th November 1856.
Died at St. James Park, Westminster, London, 9th July 1921.
The son of Charles Thomas Lucas, of Warnham Court Mansion, Warnham, Sussex, building contractor, he was educated at Harrow. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He did not play cricket for either his school or university, but in 1877 he played the first of his 27 first-class matches, 23 of them for Sussex. He also played for Warwickshire, pre-first-class. Three of his brothers also played first-class cricket, A.G. for MCC, C.J. for Middlesex and Sussex and F.M. for Sussex. His nephew C.E. also played for Sussex. He became a brewer in Leamington, Warwickshire. He was a captain in the Warwickshire Yeomanry, a J.P. for Warwickshire and was High Sheriff in 1900. In 1911 he was living at The Oaks, Leamington, Warwickshire.
At the time of the 1881 Census he was living at 2 Warwick Place, Milverton, Warwickshire, aged 24, a brewer, with his wife Annie, aged 22, born in Bolton, Lancashire. They have a visitor, the Hon. Robert H. Lyttelton (MCC and Worcestershire), aged 27 and a clerk to a solicitor. They have nine domestic servants.

 

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)