LUCAS, Henry (1587-1663) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. 11 Nov. 1587, 2nd but 1st. surv. s. of Edward Lucas of Thriplow, Cambs. and Mary, da. of Sir Nicholas Heron of Croydon, Surr.M. Temple Admiss. 85; C.G.Y[?], ‘Strangers resident in London in 1595’, Coll. Top. et Gen. viii. 208n; J.C.T. Oates, Cambridge University Library (1986), 354. educ. ?Thriplow sch. Cambs. (Thomas Bendish);J. Crispini, Vetustissimum Authorum Georgica, Bucolica & Gnomica poemata quae supersunt (Geneva, 1600), flyleaf (CUL, Q*.13.18 (G)); Oates, Cambridge Univ. Lib. 356-7. St John’s, Camb. 1602;PROB11/311/547; I. Barrow, Lectiones Mathematicae XXIII (1685), p. iv; The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, trans. J. Kirkby (1734), p. ix; Al. Cant.; Oates, Cambridge Univ. Lib. 357. M. Temple, 6 Feb. 1606;M. Temple Admiss. 85. MA, Camb. 1636. unm. Smyth’s Obit. ed. H. Ellis (Cam. Soc. xliv), 58. suc. fa. 17 July 1601.MIs Cambs. 174. bur. 21 July 1663.Reg. of Burials at the Temple Church 1628-1853 (1905), 16.

Offices Held

Household: sec. to Dudley Carleton†, Visct. Dorchester, by May 1629-Feb. 1632;CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 549; 1631–3, p. 229. to Henry Rich†, 1st earl of Holland, by Oct. 1632-aft. Apr. 1642.HMC Cowper, i. 479; PJ ii. 137.

Local: jt. collector, sea coal customs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1634–d.Coventry Docquets, 226; HMC Var. Coll. viii. 194–5. Commr. assessment, Cambridge Univ. and town 23 June 1647; militia, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

LUCAS, Henry (1587-1663)

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Likenesses

Likenesses: family group on father’s tomb, Triplow church.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LUCAS, Henry (1587-1663)

Will

11 June 1663, pr. 28 July 1663.PROB11/311/547; W. Archer-Thomson, Drapers’ Co. - Hist. of the Co.’s Properties and Trusts (1939-40), ii. 116-19.

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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