Joseph Lucas

Born in Carver Street, Hockley, Birmingham, England[1] in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and educated at a local Church Sunday School, Joseph Lucas was apprenticed to H. & G.R.

[2] In 1872 he admitted his son, Harry, into his business and within three years they opened the Lamp Works in Little King Street in Birmingham.

[3] They concentrated on the new types of lamp burning paraffin and petroleum for which there was considerable demand.

His body was brought back to England for burial, which took place on 14 January 1903 at St. Mary's Church, Moseley.

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