[1] Born on 20 June 1883[2] and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St Catherine's Society in the same city, he was made deacon on 23 December 1906, by George Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells, at Wells Cathedral.
Yoruban Bishop James Johnson had noted that the Church should be ‘not an exotic but a plant become indigenous to the soil’.
[6] Lucas was later the provost and sub-dean of Masasi Collegiate Church and a canon of Zanzibar before his ordination to the episcopate.
He was consecrated a bishop on Michaelmas (29 September) 1926, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
[9] St Stephen's House, Oxford displays a painting created by Lucas during his time at the university.