{{Short description|English political writer and autobiographer (1842–1924)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} [[File:Sir Henry William Lucy (1845-1924).jpg|thumb|Sir Henry William Lucy as painted by John Singer Sargent in 1905]] '''Sir Henry William Lucy''' JP, (5 December 1842 – 20 February 1924) was a famed English political journalist of the Victorian era, acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. He wrote for ''Punch'', ''The Strand Magazine'', ''The Observer'', ''The New York Times'' and many other papers. He also wrote books, detailing the workings of the Houses of Parliament and two autobiographies. He was knighted in 1909. Lucy was widely known also in North America. President Woodrow Wilson said Lucy's articles in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' inspired his mind and propelled him into public life. Lucy was a serious parliamentary commentator, but also an accomplished humorist and a parliamentary sketch-writer. His friend, the explorer Ernest Shackleton, named a mountain in Antarctica after him.
==Life and career== right|thumb|Signed photo taken about 1892 right|thumb|Lucy in 1908 Henry Lucy was born in Crosby, near Liverpool in 1842,{{efn |Most early references give 5 December 1845 as the birthdate, as did Lucy himself. DNB cites a baptism in April 1843 and gives a putative birthdate of March 1843. English civil registration records the birth in the first quarter of 1843, as William Henry Lucy. Thus 5 December 1842 seems the most likely date of birth.}}<ref name="dob">[District:West Derby Vol:XX Page:863]</ref> the son of Robert Lucy, a rose-engine turner in the watch trade, and his wife, Margaret Ellen Kemp. He was baptised, William Henry on 23 April 1843 at St. Michael's Church, Crosby. While he was still an infant the family removed to Everton, Liverpool, where he attended the private Crescent School until August 1856; thereafter until 1864 he was junior clerk to Robert Smith, hide merchant, of Redcross Street, Liverpool.
While working as a clerk he had poetry published in the ''Liverpool Mercury''; taught himself shorthand. Worked for the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' as chief reporter from 1864,<ref name="Matthews2017">{{Cite book |author=Rachel Matthews |title=The History of the Provincial Press in England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKqODgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 |accessdate=23 October 2018 |date=18 May 2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4411-5646-4 |pages=78–}}</ref> and for Shrewsbury's local ''Observer'', and the ''Shropshire News''. Before giving notice to the ''Chronicle'' he wrote leader articles for the other Shrewsbury papers, which mostly replied to his own leaders in the ''Chronicle'' the week before, besides writing "penny-a-liners" of Shropshire news for London newspapers.<ref name=t9r2>{{Cite work |title=Through Nine Reigns, 200 years of The Shrewsbury Chronicle |page=52}}</ref>
Lucy married on 29 October 1873 Emily Anne (1847–1937), daughter of his old schoolmaster at Liverpool, John White. There were no children of the marriage.
Lucy lived in Paris during 1869 and learned French. After returning to England he wrote for ''Pall Mall Gazette'' from 1870 and as parliamentary reporter for ''Daily News'' from 1873. He stayed with the Liberal newspaper, for which he was promoted the editor. He was a parliamentary sketch writer for ''Punch'' magazine from 1881.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Lucy, Henry W. |magazine=Who's Who |year=1907 |volume=9 |pages=1090–1091 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1090}}</ref> In 1880, Lucy began writing for ''The Observer''{{'s}} "Cross Bench" column. This he continued to do for 29 years. He used the pseudonym "Toby, M.P." from 1881 to 1916. He wrote the weekly column "The Essence of Parliament" in ''Punch'' for 35 years. When not writing under one of his pseudonyms, he was usually styled ''Henry W. Lucy''.
Lucy's lasting memorial is in the volumes he compiled from his ''Punch'' parliamentary sketches: ''A Diary of Two Parliaments'' (2 vols., 1885–1886), '' A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886–1892'' (1892), ''A Diary of the Home Rule Parliament, 1892–1895'' (1896), ''A Diary of the Unionist Parliament, 1895–1900'' (1901), and ''The Balfourian Parliament, 1900–1905'' (1906). They amount to a history of the Commons in its heyday and have been extensively mined by historians.
Lucy was a long-running friend and fund-raiser for Shackleton's expeditions to the South Pole. His generosity exceeded Shackleton's expectations, guaranteeing their success. Knighted in 1909, he was the first lobby correspondent to be seen as a social equal of the politicians in the Commons on whom he reported.
He rose to national prominence during the constitutional crises of 1909–1910, during which he revealed to the Commons that Navy estimates had been as much as £60 million all along. His article was used as evidence by Hugh Foster MP to demand clarity from the government on the budgetary proposals being blocked in the Lords.<ref>Finance Business (Procedure). HC Deb 21 March 1910 vol 15 cc777-839</ref>
His London home was at 42 Ashley Gardens, and he was a member of the National Liberal Club.
A pioneer of the profession of public affairs consultancy, Lucy had already been awarded a knighthood, when invited to Buckingham Palace by Queen Mary, to whom he presented a gift of his political anecdote collection.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/1171553/diary-of-a-journalist |title=Sir Henry Lucy (1843-1924) - Diary of a journalist}}</ref>
Sir Henry Lucy died of bronchitis at ''Whitethorn'', his country house at Hythe, Kent in 1924, aged 81. (The house is now known as "Lucys" on Lucys Hill).<ref name="dob"/> Lucy left a huge sum of money, over £250,000,<ref>Probate, 14 April 1925, £263,672 1s. 5d., ''CGPLA Eng. & Wales''.</ref> and was probably the wealthiest Victorian journalist who was not also a newspaper proprietor. In his will he endowed a "Sir William Henry Lucy Bed" at Shrewsbury's Royal Salop Infirmary "in memory of his pleasant connection with Shrewsbury" as a journalist.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keeling-Roberts |first=Margaret |title=In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary |year=1981 |publisher=North Shropshire Printing Company |page=xvi |isbn=0-9507849-0-7}}From list of beds and cots endowed "in perpetuity".</ref> In 1935, his widow Lady Lucy donated £1,000 to found the ''Sir Henry Lucy Scholarship'' at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. There are several portraits of Sir Henry Lucy at the National Portrait Gallery, including one by John Singer Sargent.
The mixed perceptions of his personality have been left to modern biographers to examine more deeply.<ref>''A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce'', Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz.</ref>
==Lifeboat== In 1902, Lucy made a gift of £1000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for the provision of a lifeboat. A {{convert|35|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} {{Lbc|Norfolk and Suffolk}} lifeboat, built by Thames Ironworks of Blackwall, London, was provided to {{Lbs|Caister}} in 1903, and named ''Nancy Lucy''. The lifeboat operated from 1903 until 1929, launching 42 times, and saving 144 lives.<ref name="Nancy Lucy">{{cite journal |title=Summary of the Meetings of the Committee |journal=The Lifeboat |date=1 November 1902 |volume=XVIII |issue=206 |page=565 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/18/206/summary-of-the-meetings-of-the-committee |access-date=9 February 2026}}</ref><ref name="New">{{cite journal |title=Additional Stations and New Life-Boats |journal=The Lifeboat |date=2 November 1903 |volume=XVIII |issue=210 |pages=836–837 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/18/210/additional-stations-and-new-life-boats |access-date=9 February 2026}}</ref><ref name="LBL1-2">{{cite book |last1=Farr |first1=Grahame |last2=Morris |first2=Jeff |title=List of British Lifeboats Part 1 & 2 |date=1992 |publisher=Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society |page=17 |edition=Second}}</ref>
==Quotes about Lucy== [[File:Henrywlucy.jpg|right|thumb|Caricature of Henry Lucy, by Leslie Ward, 1905]] US President Woodrow Wilson credited Lucy with propelling him into public life,<ref>[https://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2003/sample/kraigchap.pdf Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman] by Robert Alexander Kraig, 2004</ref> describing his articles in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' as "the deciding impulse of [my] life; vivid descriptions of Parliament, which took an enthralling hold on [my] young imagination" (''The New York Times'', 1912).<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/28/100589403.pdf "Governor Woodrow Wilson as his biographer knows him"]. ''The New York Times'', 28 July 1912.<br/>See also the dedication and letter in ''Men and Manner in Parliament'' (1919), and Chapter 1 ''"The Orator"'', which first appeared pseudonymously in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in 1874.</ref>
"Never in the House, but always of it, Lucy seemed to occupy for a long time a position of his own, as a species of familiar spirit or licensed jester, without which no Parliament was complete."<ref>''The Times'' obituary (22 February 1924), p. 17.</ref>
The journalist and writer Frank Harris said of Lucy: "He met everyone, and knew no-one."<ref>''My Life and Loves'' by Frank Harris, Vol. 2, Chapter XXII.</ref>
Mount Henry Lucy (3,020 metres) in Antarctica was named after him by Shackleton in 1909,<ref>[http://mapplanet.com/?do=loc&country=_A&adm1=09&loc=20005419 MapPlanet]</ref> as thanks for Lucy's help in publicising his ''Nimrod'' Expedition and raising funds.
"Shackleton's naming an Antarctic mountain after Sir Henry Lucy amuses me. I knew Lucy very well – a little toadie, who afterwards toadied himself into a title". Ambrose Bierce, 1910.<ref>''A Much Misunderstood Man – Selected letters of Ambrose Bierce'' edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.</ref>
==Works== ===Articles=== Lucy wrote many articles for ''Punch'', ''The Strand Magazine'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Cornhill Magazine'', ''The New York Times'' and others. Some of these are noted below. *"Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden" (1882) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fharp%2Fharp0064%2F&tif=00757.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK4014-0064-112 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"Glimpses Of Great Britons" (1882) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fharp%2Fharp0065%2F&tif=00177.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK4014-0065-21 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"Hatfield House and the Marquess of Salisbury" (1885) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fharp%2Fharp0070%2F&tif=00349.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK4014-0070-50 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"Men of the Salisbury Parliament" (1891) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0152%2F&tif=00457.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0152-46 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"Electioneering methods in England" (1892) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0155%2F&tif=00344.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0155-40 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"The Power of the British Press" (1896) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0163%2F&tif=00174.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0163-21&coll=moa&frames=1&view=50 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"The Queen's Parliaments, Part I" (1897) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0164%2F&tif=00747.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0164-74 Online version] at Cornell University Library *"The Queen's Parliaments, Part II" (1897) [https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0165%2F&tif=00105.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0165-13 Online version] at Cornell University Library
===Autobiographies=== Lucy wrote two autobiographies, each in three volumes:
''Sixty Years in the Wilderness'' *Volume I ''Some Passages by the Way'' (1909) [https://archive.org/details/sixtyyearsinwild00lucyuoft Online version] at the Internet Archive *Volume II ''More Passages by the Way'' (1912) [https://archive.org/details/sixtyyearsinwil00lucyuoft Online version] at the Internet Archive *Volume III "''Nearing Jordan'' (1916) [https://archive.org/details/nearingjordanbei00lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive
''The Diary of a Journalist'' *Volume I (1920) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofjournalis01lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *Volume II ''Later Entries'' (1922) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofjournalis02lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *Volume III ''Fresh Extracts'' (1923)
===Pseudonyms=== right|thumb|Photo of Sir Henry Lucy, signed 'Toby, M.P.', ''Punch'' On occasion Lucy used one of the following pseudonyms for his works. *Toby, M.P. *The Member for the Chiltern Hundreds *The Member for ''Barks'' *Baron de Book-Worms
===Books=== Lucy wrote a number of books: *''Gideon Fleyce'' [novel] (1883) [https://archive.org/details/gideonfleyceano00lucygoog Online version] at the Internet Archive *''East by West: a journey in the Recess'' (1885) [https://archive.org/details/eastbywest00unkngoog Online version] at the Internet Archive *''A Diary Of Two Parliaments: The Disraeli Parliament, 1874-1880'' (1885) [https://archive.org/details/diaryoftwoparlia00lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *''A Diary Of Two Parliaments: The Gladstone Parliament, 1880-1885'' (1886) [https://archive.org/details/diaryoftwoparlia02lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *''A Popular Handbook of Parliamentary Procedure'' (1886) [https://archive.org/details/popularhandbooko00lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Faces and Places'' (1892) [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25624/25624-h/25624-h.htm Online version] at Project Gutenberg *''A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886-1892'' (1892) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofsalisbury00lucyrich Online version] at the Internet Archive *''The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone: A Study from Life'' (1895) [https://archive.org/details/righthonorablewi00lucy Online version] at the Internet Archive *''A Diary of the Home Rule Parliament, 1892-1895'' (1896) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofthehomeru008483mbp Online version] at the Internet Archive *''The Log of the Tantallon Castle'' (1896)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hollandamericablog.com/albert/?page_id=68 |title=Weblog description of the book |access-date=30 August 2009 |archive-date=18 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318080230/http://www.hollandamericablog.com/albert/?page_id=68 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''The Miller's Niece, and some distant connections'' [short stories] (1896) *''The Law and Practice of General Elections: A Popular Handbook'' (1900) *''A Diary of the Unionist Parliament, 1895-1900'' (1901) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofunionistp00lucyuoft Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Peeps at Parliament, taken from behind the Speaker's Chair'' (1904) [https://archive.org/details/peepsatparliamen00lucyrich Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Later peeps at Parliament, taken from behind the Speaker's Chair'' (1905) [https://archive.org/details/laterpeepsatparl00lucyuoft Online version] at the Internet Archive *''The Balfourian Parliament, 1900–1905'' (1906) [https://archive.org/details/balfourianparlia00lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Memories of Eight Parliaments'' (1908) [https://archive.org/details/memoriesofeightp00lucyrich Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Men and Manner in Parliament'' (1919) [https://archive.org/details/menandmannerinpa00lucyiala Online version] at the Internet Archive *''Lords and Commoners'' (1921) [https://archive.org/details/lordscommonersil00lucyuoft Online version] at the Internet Archive
===Quotes=== Lucy's analytical observations of the Conservative antagonist Benjamin Disraeli were characteristic: <blockquote>The physical energy with which this election speech was delivered was certainly very remarkable for a man in his seventy-fourth year. There is, however, unmistakeable evidence of pumping up in the Premier's (Beaconsfield's) latest oratorical feats. The vigour is spasmodic, the strength artificial, and the listener has a feeling that at any moment a spring may break, a screw go loose, and the whole machinery come to a sudden stop.</blockquote>
[[File:Henrylucy.gif|right|thumb|Caricature of Henry Lucy, by Kate Carew]] Remarking on the Liberal counterpart's performance in the chamber, he sensed that <blockquote>Gladstone's ''tours de force'' are perfectly natural. When after one of his great speeches he resumes his seat, he is, and often proves himself to be, ready to start again. With the Premier, the excitement of the moment over and the appointed task achieved, he falls into a state of prostration painful to witness. His eyes seem to lose all expression, his cheeks fall in, and his face takes on a ghastly hue. Physically he is at least ten years older than Gladstone.<ref>''A Diary of Two Parliaments'' London, Cassell, 1885 p. 151</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>The House of Commons is unique in many ways. I believe the main foundation of the position it holds among the parliaments of the world is the condition of volunteered unremunerated service. In spite of the sneers from disappointed or flippant persons, a seat in the House of Commons remains one of the highest prizes of citizen life. There is no reason why any constituency desiring to do so may not return a member on the terms of paying him a salary. It is done in several cases, in two at least with the happiest results. It would be a different thing to throw the whole place open with standing advertisement for eligible Members at a salary. The horde of impecunious babblers and busybodies attracted by such a bait would trample down the class of man who compose the present House of Commons and who are, in various ways, in touch with all the multiform interests of the nation. ''The Strand Magazine'', 1893<ref>[https://endofdirecttaxation.blogspot.com/2007/01/daily-mail-letters-page-january-16th.html] ''YourMoneyDownTheDrain'' blog quotation from the ''Daily Mail'', 16 January 2007</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>I would rather have been editor of ''Punch'', than Emperor of India<ref>Quoted in ''Writers, Readers and Reputations'' by Philip Waller, p. 78.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Yesterday Herbert Spencer died at Brighton. His natural temperament was such that many things that other men got along with placidly gave him acute pain. To put the incontestable fact another way, he was perhaps the most irascible man who has ever been faced by the inconvenience of other people presuming to inhabit the same globe<ref>quoted in ''On the Up and Up'' by Bruce Barton (reprinted Kessinger, 2004) p.154</ref></blockquote>
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==External links== *{{Gutenberg author | id=31470}} *{{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry William Lucy |sopt=t}} *{{Librivox author |id=1092}} *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/25/102027120.pdf Mark Twain makes some parting remarks] - ''The New York Times'', 25 October 1903 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/29/120286545.pdf Sensation in the Lords witnessed by Toby, M.P.] - ''The New York Times'', 29 May 1904 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/07/17/101393962.pdf Toby, M.P. tells how late dinners worry the Government] - ''The New York Times'', 17 July 1904 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/05/16/104804086.pdf The Parliamentary Game] - Review of ''Memories of Eight Parliaments'', ''The New York Times'', 16 May 1908 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/04/101735705.pdf To build 8 Dreadnoughts] – ''The New York Times'', 4 April 1909 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/06/25/101888139.pdf 'Toby, M.P.', Pinero and Tree knighted] – ''The New York Times'', 25 June 1909 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/06/26/101036825.pdf Sixty Years in the Wilderness] – Review of ''Sixty years in the Wilderness'', Vol. 1, ''The New York Times'', 26 June 1909 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/11/27/101230158.pdf Humor in the House of Commons, by Toby, M.P.] – ''The New York Times'', 27 November 1910 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/12/25/105900068.pdf Toby, M.P. writes of the English Peerage] – ''The New York Times'', 25 December 1910 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/28/100589403.pdf Governor Woodrow Wilson as his biographer knows him] – ''The New York Times'', 28 July 1912 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/23/100258363.pdf Toby, M.P.] – Review of ''Sixty years in the Wilderness'', Vol. 2, ''The New York Times'', 23 March 1913 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/25/104902223.pdf Washington ghost disclosed by Lucy] – ''The New York Times'', 25 July 1912 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/01/09/103531420.pdf A Humorist writes History] – Review of ''The Diary of a Journalist'', ''The New York Times'', 9 January 1921 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/07/24/109816697.pdf Men and Manners in Parliament] – Review of ''Men and Manner in Parliament'', ''The New York Times'', 24 July 1921 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/25/112682144.pdf Sir Toby, M.P. sketches Parliament] – Review of ''Lords and Commoners'', ''The New York Times'', 25 June 1922 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/09/10/102391069.pdf Later Diary of Toby, M.P.] – Review of ''The Diary of a Journalist: Later Entries'', ''The New York Times'', 10 September 1922 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/10/29/107078057.pdf Sir William Harcourt, Victorian Statesman] – Book review by Sir Henry Lucy, ''The New York Times'', 29 October 1922 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101121090354/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717882,00.html Death notice] – notice of death in ''Time'', 3 March 1924 *[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=ss&sText=lucy&LinkID=mp02819 Portraits of Sir Henry Lucy] – Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
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