Background
Lacaita was the only son of Sir James Philip Lacaita and his wife Maria Clavering Gibson-Carmichael daughter of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael.
Lacaita was the only son of Sir James Philip Lacaita and his wife Maria Clavering Gibson-Carmichael daughter of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael.
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1879.
He was Assistant Private Secretary to Earl Granville in 1885. He was re-elected in 1886, and resigned his seat on 7 February 1888 by the procedural device of acceoting the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. Lacaita was a botanist of note.
He lived at Horsley near Leatherhead and later at Selham, West Sussex.
Lacaita died at the age of 80. Lacaita married Mary Annabel Doyle, daughter of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle.
Lacaita had nineteen plant species named after him. (Asteraceae) Centaurea lacaitae Peruzzi
(Boraginaceae) Echium lacaitae Sennen
(Brassicaceae) Draba lacaitae Boiss.
(Caryophyllaceae) Cerastium lacaitae Barberis, Bechi & Miceli
(Caryophyllaceae) Silene lacaitae Willk.
(Cistaceae) Halimiocistus × lacaitae Dans. (Lamiaceae) Micromeria lacaitae Lojac. (Leguminosae) Lathyrus lacaitae Czefr.
(Liliaceae) Gagea lacaitae North.Terracc. ex Lojac.
(Orchidaceae) Ophrys lacaitae Lojac. (Plumbaginaceae) Armeria lacaitae (Villar) Rivas Mart.
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At the 1885 general election, Lacaita was elected as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Dundee.
