Sir William Henry Tucker Luce (25 August 1907 – 7 July 1977) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as the governor and commander-in-chief of Aden from 1956 to 1960. Luce was the son of Rear Admiral John Luce and Mary Dorothea Tucker. He was educated at

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. His brother was Sir David Luce, who served as

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of the

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. His granddaughter is comedian

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. Luce ended his career in Sudan as adviser to the governor-general on constitutional and external affairs and was knighted in 1956. After four years as

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he became political resident in the Persian Gulf from 1961 to 1966. He married Margaret Napier, daughter of

Trevylyan Napier Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier, (19 April 1867 – 30 July 1920) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station. Naval career Napier was the son of Ella Louisa (Wilson) an ...

, who was the commander-in-chief, America and West Indies Station (1919–1920). By her he had two children: *

Richard Luce, Baron Luce Richard Napier Luce, Baron Luce, (born 14 October 1936) is a British politician. He is a former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, serving from 2000 to 2006, and has been Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1971 t ...

(b. 14 October 1936) *Diana Luce, married David Hart Dyke, mother to

. Luce died in 1977, aged 69.

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