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Keith Lucas

1879 - 1916

Born

08 March 1879

Greenwich, London, England

Died

05/10/1916

In the air over Salisbury Plain, near Aldershot, Hampshire

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
01/05/1913
Relationships
Second son of Francis Robert Lucas, Managing Director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich (inventor of improvements in submarine cables and cable laying), and Katherine Mary, daughter of John Riddle, headmaster of Greenwich Hospital schools. married Alys, daughter of the Reverend Cyril Egerton Hubbard (1909). Three sons - Alan (b. 1910), David (1911-1997), and Bryan (1912-1996).