Frederick Lucas (30 March 1812 – 22 October 1855) was a British religious polemicist and founder of The Tablet.
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.
It is the second oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator (which was founded in 1828).
After establishing the Irish Tenant Right League with Charles Gavan Duffy in 1850, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Meath in 1852.
After failing in a complaint-mission to Rome on behalf of the league,[3] Lucas died in October 1855 at Staines, Middlesex, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.