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Peter Herbert Lucas

 

 

Peter Lucas was born in 1911 in Christchurch, Dorset.  His parents were Alfred Herbert Capenhurst Lucas, who came from a wealthy banking family, and Louise Marie Elizabeth Brierly.  Louise was the daughtet of Sir Oswald Brierly, Marine Painter in Ordinary to Queen Victoria.

 

Peter was educated at Bryanstone School and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art.  He served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. In 1944 married Barbara, daughter of Baroness Zouche, who had previously been married to Lord Normanton and Sir Otho Prior Palmer. They moved to Deal, Kent, where according to one account they ran a guest house.

 

 Peter and Barbara divorced in 1959 and the following year he married Claudia Wagstaffe (nee Calmon).  They lived in Sandgate in Kent, later moving to Saltwood. He was a lecturer at the Folkestone College of Art.

 

He owned a small trawler which he sailed from Folkestone Harbour, where he was a valued member of the fishing community.

 

In 1983 he suffered a serious stroke, which left him paralysed on his right side and unable to speak.  He then trained himself to paint with his left hand and produced a number of paintings (largely watercolours).

 

For a description of one of his paintings by the writer Jonathan Meades, follow this link.

 

Whilst in the Navy he illustrated a souvenir pamphlet on the Royal Navy at Poole during World War II.