Henry Lucas

Coat of arms of Lucas of Little Saxham, Suffolk and Shenfield, Essex

Reverend Henry Lucas (* 1610 ; † July 1663 in Chancery Lane , London ) was an English clergyman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 . He is best known for donating the Lucasian Chair .

Life

Lucas studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and became secretary to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland . In April 1640 he became a Member of the Short Parliament for the University of Cambridge . In November 1640 he became a member of the Long Parliament . During Pride's Purge , Palarment was excluded in 1648.

Lucas died unmarried on Chancery Lane in London and was buried in Temple Church on July 22, 1663. He was remembered primarily as a benefactor.

estate

Lucas Hospital Coat of Arms

In his will he donates £ 7,000 to build a poor house for elderly men with a chaplain as steward. The men were to be chosen from among the poorest residents of the Forest Division of Berkshire , the Bailiwick of Surrey, and the surrounding areas. The original poor house was built in 1666 by the wills on 6,000 square feet of land in Wokingham . After his death in 1675, the City of London's Drapers' Company took over the management of the poor house. In 1923 an Act of Parliament was passed which dissolved the original foundation, appointed a superior and allowed married couples to be accepted.

In 1999 the original building fell into disrepair and was sold. In July 2002, the Henry Lucas Charity was merged with the Whiteley Homes Trust. Sixteen double cottages were then built in Whiteley Village near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey. This allowed double the number of people to be accommodated in the poor house and it was renamed The Henry Lucas Cottages .

Lucas bequeathed his collection of 4,000 books, including Galileo 's Dialogues in 1632, to Cambridge University Library , plus land to ensure income of £ 100 a year. These were used to finance a professorship in mathematics, which is now the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics .

Web links

Henry Lucas' Charity ( Memento from March 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Henry Lucas Cottages ( Memento from February 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Lucas, Henry . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 3 : Kaile-Ryves . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1924, pp. 113 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Browne Willis: Notitia Parliamentaria, Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales:… The Whole Extracted from Mss. And Printed Evidences… R. Gosling, 1750, p. 229 ff ., here pp. 230 and 241 ( books.google.com ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lucas, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English clergyman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1610
DATE OF DEATH	July 1663
Place of death	Chancery Lane , London

[1] Lucas, Henry . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 3 : Kaile-Ryves . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1924, pp. 113 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Browne Willis: Notitia Parliamentaria, Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales:… The Whole Extracted from Mss. And Printed Evidences… R. Gosling, 1750, p. 229 ff ., here pp. 230 and 241 ( books.google.com ).