Background
He was born in Westminster, the second son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, a London corn-merchant, who was a member of the Society of Friends.
He was born in Westminster, the second son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, a London corn-merchant, who was a member of the Society of Friends.
He was educated at a Quaker school in Darlington, and then at University College, London. He studied law at Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in 1835.
In 1840, Lucas founded The Tablet, published in London, a progressive international Catholic weekly newspaper, just 11 years before the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. lieutenant is the second oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator (which was founded in 1828). lieutenant has an international readership of over 55,000.
After failing in a complaint-mission to Rome on behalf of the league, Lucas died in October 1855 at Staines, Middlesex, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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After establishing the Irish Tenant Right League with Charles Gavan Duffy in 1850, he was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Meath in 1852.