Peter Lucas was
born in 1911 in
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
He owned a small
trawler which he sailed from
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.