[3] He left school to be apprenticed as a carpenter,[1] the trade of his grandfather Nathaniel Lucas.

[5] He regained a seat in the assembly at the 1871 Canterbury by-election,[5] serving until his retirement in 1880.

His only ministerial appointment was as Secretary for Mines in the third Robertson ministry from February 1875 until March 1877.

[8] He also maintained a holiday cottage on Lapstone Hill at the Eastern edge of the Blue Mountains.

On the original Lapstone Zig Zag a station was built for him and named Lucasville.