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Edward Lucas (died 1775)
Edward Lucas may refer to: *Edward Lucas (Australian politician) (1857–1950), South Australian politician *Edward Lucas (congressman) (1780–1858), United States Congressman from Virginia *Edward Lucas (cricketer) (1848–1916), Australian cricketer *Edward Lucas (journalist) (born 1962), British journalist *Edward Lucas (died 1871), Member of Parliament for Monaghan 1834–1841 *Ed Lucas (born 1939), sportswriter *Ed Lucas (baseball) (born 1982), American baseball third baseman *Eddie Lucas (born 1975), basketball player *E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), British author *Édouard Lucas (1842–1891), French mathematician See also *Eduardo Lucas, a fictional character from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Second Stain "The Adventure of the Second Stain", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' (1905) and the only unrecorded case mentioned pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (Australian Politician)
Sir Edward Lucas (14 February 1857 – 4 July 1950) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1900 to 1918, associated with the National Defence League, Australasian National League and its successor, the Liberal Union (South Australia), Liberal Union. He resigned in 1918 to become Agent-General for South Australia, a role he held until 1925. Lucas was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and was educated at Bailieborough. He worked as a draper's apprentice in Dublin, before migrating to South Australia in 1878. He initially worked for John Martin & Co., but established his own drapery in North Adelaide in 1882, and built a partnership with several stores. Lucas moved to Gawler, South Australia, Gawler in 1886, purchasing the business of J. & J. Wilcox, which he operated until 1901; he also maintained stores in Adelaide, Hamley Bridge, South Australia, Hamley Bridge and Balaklava, South Australia, Balaklava, only selling the latt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (congressman)
Edwards Lucas (October 20, 1780 – March 4, 1858) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and military officer from western Virginia, who served in the War of 1812, the Virginia House of Delegates and the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming superintendent of the military arsenal at Harpers Ferry (1837-1841) and then its paymaster until his death. His younger brother William Lucas would also later hold the redistricted congressional seat. Early and family life Born in Jefferson County near Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Robert Lucas and his wife the former Elizabeth Edwards (1745-1808), the younger Lucas is sometimes referred to as Edward Lucas IV. His Quaker grandfather Edward Lucas II moved to Virginia with his Philadelphia-born wife, and his son (this man's father) fought as a patriot during the revolutionary war. He also shared the name with his uncle and some cousins, but after two sons having the name died as infants, this baby received th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (cricketer)
Edward Lucas (16 June 1848 – 19 April 1916) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ... in 1877. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers References External links * 1848 births 1916 deaths Australian cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers from Hobart {{Australia-cricket-bio-1840s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (journalist)
Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British writer and security specialist. Career Lucas is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Until 2018, he was a senior editor at ''The Economist''. He writes a column for ''The Times'' and occasionally writes for the '' Daily Mail''. He edited '' Standpoint'' magazine from September 2019 until March 2020. Lucas has covered Central and Eastern European affairs since 1986, writing, broadcasting, and speaking on the politics, economics, and security of the region. In September 2021, he was selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster in the next general election, then expected to take place in 2024. Personal life Lucas's second wife is the columnist Cristina Odone, with whom he has one child; he had two children with his first wife Claudia, who is German. He lives in London. His father was the Oxford philosopher John Lucas. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (died 1871)
Edward Lucas (27 September 1787 – 12 November 1871) was an Irish landowner and politician in County Monaghan. Biography He was the only child of Charles Lucas, High Sheriff of Monaghan in 1795; Edward Lucas MP was his grandfather. In 1796 he succeeded his father in the family estate of Castle Shane. He was High Sheriff for Monaghan in 1818, and represented the county in Parliament from 1834 to 1841. From 1841 to 1846 he served as Under-Secretary for Ireland, and in 1845 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council. In 1812 Lucas was married to Anne, daughter of William Ruxton of Ardee. They had five sons (including Gould Arthur Lucas Gould Arthur Lucas, Irish soldier and survivor of , fl. 1830s – 19 May 1914 A son of the Right Honourable Edward Lucas of Castle Shane, County Monaghan, Ireland, Lucas was an ensign at time of the sinking of . Ensign Lucas and Lieutenant Gira ...) and three daughters. On his death he was succeeded at Castle Shane by his eldest son Edward W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Lucas
Edward Joseph Lucas Jr. (January 3, 1939 – November 10, 2021) was an American blind sportswriter who primarily covered the New York Yankees. Biography Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lucas grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey and attended St. Joseph's School for the Blind in Jersey City. Lucas was blind from 1951, when he was 12 years old. He was pitching in a pickup game on October 3, 1951—the day of Bobby Thomson's " Shot Heard 'Round the World"— when a line drive hit him in the face. The accident resulted in the loss of his sight. From 1964, Lucas was a reporter and broadcaster. He was an alumnus of Seton Hall University, having received a bachelor's degree in communication arts. In 2006, Lucas and his second wife, Allison Pfeifle, were the first couple to be married on the field of Yankee Stadium; they had been introduced to each other by Phil Rizzuto. Lucas was featured in ''Bleacher Boys'', a 2009 documentary about blind baseball fans, and in an April 2018 episode of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Lucas (baseball)
Edward Lee Lucas (born May 21, 1982) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2004, Lucas played in minor league baseball through 2013, when he made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Miami Marlins. Career Amateur career Lucas attended Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange, Florida, and Dartmouth College. He graduated from Dartmouth in 2004 with a degree in sociology and economics. Lucas played college baseball for the Dartmouth Big Green under head coach Bob Whalen; and also played American football in his freshman year. Lucas won the Ivy League batting title as a senior, and was named Ivy League Player of the Year and received honors as Dartmouth's Most Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year. Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals selected Lucas in the eighth round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. As Lucas could not return to college, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Lucas
Edward Howard "Eddie" Lucas (born July 14, 1975) is an American retired professional basketball player and current production manager for Highland Construction in Fayetteville NC Lucas was taken with the last pick of the 1999 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. He was not offered a spot on the team, and spent three seasons playing for professional teams in Argentina, France, Russia, Israel, and Poland. Early life and college In his senior year at Redlands High School in Redlands, California, he was named the team's Most Valuable Player and averaged 20.2 points and was named to the 1A All State team. Lucas started his college career at the United States Naval Academy where he earned All League Patriot Honors in his sophomore year. After transferring to Virginia Tech, Lucas lead the Hokies in scoring at 15.1 points per game in his senior season. At Virginia Tech, Lucas majored in civil engineering.Crumbley, Liz.Adversity no barrier to Lucas. ''The Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Lucas
__NOTOC__ François Édouard Anatole Lucas (; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Biography Lucas was born in Amiens and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He worked in the Paris Observatory and later became a professor of mathematics at the Lycée Saint Louis and the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. Lucas served as an artillery officer in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. In 1875, Lucas posed a challenge to prove that the only solution of the Diophantine equation: :\sum_^ n^2 = M^2\; with ''N'' > 1 is when ''N'' = 24 and ''M'' = 70. This is known as the cannonball problem, since it can be visualized as the problem of taking a square arrangement of cannonballs on the ground and building a square pyramid out of them. It was not until 1918 that a proof (using elliptic functions) was found for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the ''Mary Celeste''. Name Doyle is often referred to as "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" or "Conan Doyle", implying that "Conan" is part of a compound surname rather than a middle name. His baptism entry in the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives "Arth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
