Donald William Lucas (12 May 1905 – 28 February 1985) was an English classical scholar, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Educated at Colfe's (1912–1919)[2] and at Rugby, Lucas won a scholarship in 1924 to King's College, Cambridge, to read for the Classical Tripos.
[4] A descriptive sketch of Lucas at this time appears in the first volume of John Lehmann's autobiography, The Whispering Gallery (London, 1955).
[5][6] His successor as Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics in 1969, the fourth and last person to hold the post, was John Chadwick, who retired in 1984.
His 1930 translation of The Bacchae, adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes, was first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1949, with Carleton Hobbs, Mary Wimbush, Norman Shelley and Marjorie Westbury among the cast, and with music by Anthony Bernard; it was re-broadcast in 1951, 1957 and 1974.