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Keith Lucas FRS (8 March 1879, Greenwich – 5 October 1916,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2010
He delivered the Royal Society Croonian Lecture in 1912. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913; his candidacy citation read: "Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lecturer on Physiology. Has made important contributions to physiological science, especially in relation to the processes of excitation ... Much of the work was only made possible by the highly ingenious improvements designed by the author in the apparatus used."''
During the First World War, as a
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) was a British scientist who carried out pioneering work in neuroscience at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was the son of Francis Robert and Katharine Mary (née Riddle) Lucas. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated BA with a first-class in natural sciences in 1901. In 1902 he worked in New Zealand, on the bathymetrical survey of the lakes, and he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1904. In 1907 he became an additional university demonstrator in physiology, and in 1908 a lecturer in natural sciences.John K. Bradley, ‘Lucas, Keith (1879–1916)’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2010
He delivered the Royal Society Croonian Lecture in 1912. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913; his candidacy citation read: "Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lecturer on Physiology. Has made important contributions to physiological science, especially in relation to the processes of excitation ... Much of the work was only made possible by the highly ingenious improvements designed by the author in the apparatus used."''
During the First World War, as a captain
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in the Hampshire Aircraft Parks Royal Flying Corps
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(TA), based at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
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, he was engaged in experimental research into aerial navigation and early aeroplane compasses.
Convinced that his experimental work in aviation would improve if he became a pilot, he attended a flying course at Upavon, where he was instantly killed on 5 October 1916 when his aircraft BE2c 5389 collided in mid-air over Salisbury Plain
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with BE2c 4174, flown by 2Lt Geoffrey Plateras Lawson Jacques of the Central Flying School, who was also killed. Lucas is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery, and is commemorated on the War memorial of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
After his death his wife Alys changed the family name, and, as Alys Keith-Lucas, edited a short book giving his background together with reminiscences of him and a list of his publications.A. Keith-Lucas, ed., Keith Lucas (1934) They had three sons, who each became professors: Alan Keith-Lucas
Alan Keith-Lucas (1910–1995), known during the early part of his life as Alan Lucas, was a British-born social worker and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked primarily in the field of residential childcare.
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, David Keith-Lucas
David Keith-Lucas (25 March 1911 – 6 April 1997) was a British aeronautical engineer.
Early life
David Keith-Lucas was one of the sons of Alys Hubbard Lucas and Keith Lucas, who invented the first aeronautical compass. After the death of K ...
and Bryan Keith-Lucas
Bryan Keith-Lucas (born Lucas; 1 August 1912, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire − 1996, Canterbury, Kent) was an English political scientist.
Education
The son of Alys Hubbard Lucas and Keith Lucas, professor of physiology at Cambridge and an instr ...
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* 1879 births 1916 deaths Military personnel from London People from Greenwich Fellows of the Royal Society Burials at Aldershot Military Cemetery Royal Flying Corps officers British Army personnel of World War I Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in England People educated at Rugby School British military personnel killed in World War I {{UK-scientist-stub