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Keith Lucas.
131pp., 190x142mm, portrait frontis., diagram. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons.
1934
#69352
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Keith Lucas was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1901. He became a Fellow of Trinity, a lecturer in Natural Sciences at the College and in due course a distinguished physiologist. In 1914 he applied to join the Honourable Artillery Company but was given employment at the Royal Aircraft Factory, undertaking experimental research into bomb sights etc. He was gazetted to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and the following year was accepted for pilot training at the Central Flying School. He was killed in a flying accident on 5th October 1916, aged thirty-seven, and is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery. Contains an account of his antecedents, life and achievements, with a list of his scientific writings. This publication, including the work of several contributors, was organized by his widow. Rust cloth, gilt to front and spine, little rubbed & worn, about VG.
£45
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