St. John Lucas
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Biography
St. John Lucas was born in Rugby, Warwickshire on 22 January 1879.[1] He was educated at University College, Oxford. He was from 1905 a friend and mentor of Rupert Brooke.[2]
Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window. His The Oxford Book of French Verse was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907. A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the title Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People.[3]
He is described in Mike Read's Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke as "a homosexual aesthete".[4]
He died in London on 23 October 1934, and was cremated at Golders Green.[1][5]
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