Robert Lucas-Tooth

Sir Robert Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (7 December 1844 – 19 February 1915) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Sydney, the son of Edwin Tooth and Sarah Lucas, and was educated at Eton College.

From 1875 he had built an impressive mansion, Swifts, in the Sydney harbour suburb of Darling Point, New South Wales, which was designed in the Gothic revival style.

In 1910, he bought Holme Lacy House from the Earl of Chesterfield and modernised it, installing electricity and sewage systems.

[2][3] Both his elder sons were killed in action within six weeks of each other in the First World War in 1914[4] and the youngest, Archibald, who had succeeded him as 2nd Baronet, also died of pneumonia on military service in 1918.