George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth (29 March 1896 – 11 October 1967), was a British businessman and Labour politician. Lucas was the son of Percy William Lucas and Annette Lucy Lucas of

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. He was involved in the motor trade industry and served during the

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as Chair of the National Joint Industrial Council of the Motor Vehicle Retail and Repairing Trade. On 27 June 1946 he was given a peerage by the Labour government of Clement Attlee as Baron Lucas of Chilworth, ''of Chilworth in the

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''. He then served under Attlee as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1948 to 1949, as

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(Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1950 and as

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from 1950 to 1951. However, he later fell out with the Labour Party over nationalisation and moved to the cross-benches. The future Lord Lucas married Sonia Finkelstein (died 1979), the daughter of Marcus Finkelstein, a Latvian fishing-industry tycoon, in 1917. He died in October 1967, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Michael, who became a

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government minister. His second son, Ivor Lucas, became a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Syria and

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *
Daily Telegraph obituary of 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas of Chilworth, George William Lucas, 1st Baron 1896 births 1967 deaths Labour Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 Barons created by George VI