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Joseph Lucas (12 April 1834 – 27 December 1902) was a lamp manufacturer and the founder of electrical equipment manufacturer Lucas Industries.

Monument at Great King Street North, Birmingham
blue plaque

Career[edit]

Born in Carver Street, Hockley, Birmingham, England[1] in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and educated at a local Church Sunday School, Joseph Lucas was apprenticedtoH. & G.R. Elkington, Silversmiths, in 1847.[2]

In 1860 he established a business selling buckets, shovels and other oddments.[2] In 1872 he admitted his son, Harry, into his business and within three years they opened the Lamp Works in Little King Street in Birmingham.[3] They concentrated on the new types of lamp burning paraffin and petroleum for which there was considerable demand.[2] The business became Lucas Industries.[4]

He died in Naplesoftyphoid after drinking contaminated water (he was a devout teetotaller and would not drink wine)[2] when on a Mediterranean tour with his third wife. His body was brought back to England for burial, which took place on 14 January 1903 at St. Mary's Church, Moseley.[2]

Family[edit]

In 1854 he married Emily Stephens (1833–1885) and together they went on to have six children.[2] In 1885 he married Maria Tyzack and in 1901 he married Mary Anne Owen (1850–1939).[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Joseph, Harry and Oliver Lucas" (PDF). Moseley Society. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  • ^ a b c d e f g Joseph Lucas at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • ^ History of Lucas contained in report by UK Competition Commission Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "The History of Lucas Industries". Lucas Industrial. Retrieved 27 March 2021.[permanent dead link]

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