Charles Prestwood Lucas

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas KCB KCMG (7 August 1853 – 7 May 1931) was a British civil servant and historian.

Lucas was born at Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, Wales, the youngest son in a large family. He was the grandson of Dr. Henry John Lucas (1773–1840) and Jenetta Illtyds (1776–1821) and son of physician Henry Lucas and Elizabeth Bevan. His sister Mary Anne Lucas married the first Sir Joseph Bailey, later Lord Glanusk. Lucas was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.[1]

Lucas was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, on 30 April 1885. He became a civil servant in the Colonial Office which led to his becoming head of the Dominion Department and, in 1907, to his knighthood.

In the 1880s he was invited to teach at The Working Men’s College. From 1897–1903 he became Vice Principal of the College, and from 1912–1922 the Principal.[2] In 1920, he became the President of the Geographical Association.

He wrote A Historical Geography Of The British Colonies (1908),[3] A History of Canada: 1763–1812 (1909); Greater Rome and Greater Britain (1912) [4]; The Canadian War of 1812 (1912)[5]; and The Partition (Clarendon Press 1922).

Honours

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

  • 1 January 1901: Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB[6]
  • 1907: Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, KCB

References
  1. "Obituary: Sir Charles Lucas – Historian of the Empire". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 8 May 1931. p. 11.
  2. J. F. C. Harrison ,A History of the Working Men's College (1854–1954), Routledge Kegan Paul, 1954
  3. Lucas, Charles Prestwood (2009). A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: The West Indies. General Books LLC. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-4590-0868-7.
  4. Lucas, Charles Prestwood (1912). Greater Rome and Greater Britain, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. Lucas, Charles Prestwood (1912). Lord Durham's report on the affairs of British North America, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. "No. 27264". The London Gazette. 8 January 1901. p. 157.


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