Sir Gervase Lucas, 1st Baronet (1611–1667) was an English soldier and governor of

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under King Charles II. He fought as a Royalist in the

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and commanded a garrison at

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which he had seized in January 1643 until the castle surrendered after a siege in February 1646. Lucas assumed the office of

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on 5 November 1666 and died in office on 21 May 1667. He built a garrison on the island having a reinforcement of 60 men under a lieutenant, together with a supply of clothes, ammunition and stores, and a small vessel. Lucas had his predecessor in office

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jailed for extortion while in office. After Cooke escaped and went to aid the Portuguese he was charged with treason. The Lucas Baronetcy, of Fenton in the County of Lincoln, was created in the

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on 20 May 1644 for Gervase Lucas. The title became extinct on his death.

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John Keay John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europe ...

. ''The Honorable Company: A History of the English East India Company''. New York: Macmillan, 1991. p. 133. Baronets in the Baronetage of England Governors of Bombay 1667 deaths 1611 births {{UK-diplomat-stub