Henry Lucas

Henry Lucas

The Reverend Henry Lucas (c. 1610-December 1663) was Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1639 to 1640.

In his will, he founded the Henry Lucas Charity with a bequest of £7000, to be spent on building an almshouse for poor old men and on employing a chaplain as its Master. The men were to be chosen from the poorest inhabitants of the Forest Division of Berkshire and the Bailiwick of Surrey in or near the Forest. The original Hospital was built by Lucas’s executors on 1.5 acres (6,000 m²) of land in Wokingham in 1666. On the death of the executors in 1675, the Drapers' Company of the City of London inherited the trusteeship of the Hospital. In 1923 an Act of Parliament dissolved the ancient Corporation, and provided for the admission of married couples, and for the employment of a Matron. By 1999 the original building was no longer suitable for use as a modern almshouse. The original Hospital was sold, and in July 2002, the Henry Lucas Charity was merged with the Whiteley Homes Trust. Sixteen double cottages were built in the Whiteley Homes Village in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey to provide accommodation for more than twice as many people as was possible in the Hospital, and are known as "The Henry Lucas Cottages".

Henry Lucas also bequeathed his collection of 4000 books (including Galileo's "Dialogo" of 1632) to the University Library at Cambridge, along with enough land to give an income of £100 a year, which was to be used to fund a professorship of "mathematick" (now the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics).

The Drapers used a coat of arms to commemorate Lucas on the Henry Lucas Cottages at Whiteley Village, copying that on Lucas Hospital. This can be described as: "Quarterly with a crescent for difference on the fess point: 1 and 4, Argent, a fesse between six annulets gules; 2 and 3, Gules, on a bend argent, seven billets one two one two and one palewise of the bend sable", a quartering of the Lucas and Morieux families' coats of arms.

External links

* [http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/Charities/4_henry.html Henry Lucas' Charity]
* [http://www.whiteleyvillage.org.uk/ Whiteley Village]
* [http://fp.firedragon.f9.co.uk/puzzlefish/henry%20lucas%20cottages.htm Henry Lucas Cottages]


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