Reginald Jaffray Lucas (1865 – 9 May 1914) was a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Sir Thomas Lucas, 1st Baronet, decade at

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and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

. He was private secretary to two Unionist Chief Whips, Sir William Walrond, and Aretas Akers-Douglas. Then from 1900 to 1906 he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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. After leaving the House of Commons he turned to writing. His most-highly regarded work was 'George II and his Ministers', and he also published several novels. After a painful illness of

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of the lungs, he committed suicide on 9 May 1914 at his home in London, by shooting himself with a revolver.

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* 1865 births 1914 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 British politicians who died by suicide Suicides by firearm in England 20th-century English historians 1914 suicides {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub