St. John Lucas was born in Rugby, Warwickshire on 22 January 1879.

[2] Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window.

His The Oxford Book of French Verse was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907.

A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the title Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People.

[3] He is described in Mike Read's Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke as "a homosexual aesthete".