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LUCK (or LUCKE), ROBERT, son of Thomas Luck, Newport, Isle of Wight; b. 10 Jun 1674; adm.; KS 1689; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1692, matr. 2 Jul 1692, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1692 – void 1706; BA 23 Mar 1696/7; MA 1700; Master of Barnstaple Sch., Devon 1698-1740; among his pupils was John Gay; ordained; Vicar of West Down, Devon, from 1713; Vicar of Buckland Brewer, Devon, from 2 Jul 1744; author, A Miscellany of new Poems, 1736, which includes an English version of one of Martial’s epigrams, dated “Westminster School, 3d Form, 1686”; m. 19 Jan 1700 [check] Mary, dau. of William Medford, Barnstaple, Devon; buried Barnstaple, Devon 17 Jan 1747/8.

LUCY, EDWARD; b.; adm.; KS 1630; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1633, adm. scholar 1634.

LUCY, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 28 Mar 1655, Westminster Student.

LUDDINGTON, STEPHEN, son of Ven. Stephen Luddington DD, Archdeacon of Stow, and Rector of Potter Hanworth, Lincs., and Dorothy, dau. of William Dolben (qv); b.; adm. 20 Apr 1661; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1664, matr. 22 Jul 1664, aged 18, Westminster Student 17 Apr 1665 – void 1678; BA 1668; MA 1671; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln from 12 Jun 1674; Rector of Potter Hanworth, Lincs., from 4 Apr 1677; d. unm. before 26 Oct 1689.

LUDDINGTON, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1581, matr. 12 Jun 1584, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1592; BA 1585; MA 1588; d. 1593.

LUDFORD, EDWARD TAYLOR, son of Thomas Ludford (formerly Bracebridge), London, and Ann (who kept a boarding house at the School to her death in 1748), widow of Thomas Bold, London, distiller, and only dau. of Rev. Edward Taylor, Rector of Finningley, Notts.; bapt. St. James, Garlickhythe, London 9 Sep 1737 (IGI); in school list 1744; KS (aged 13) 1751; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1756, matr. 15 Jun 1756, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1757 – res 5 Jan 1760, having been suspended for taking a degree for a year from 22 Dec 1759 owing to his idleness; migrated to Trinity Coll. Oxford; BA 1760; ordained; Rector of Berkswell, Warwicks., from 1762; m. 12 Jun 1766 Ann Craven, “niece of Lord Craven”; d. Sep 1769.

Lummis, Christopher John, son of Clifford Lummis, asst. master Merchant Taylors’ Sch., and Frances May Runyard, d. of John Stanwix of Dulwich; b. 2 Mar. 1931; adm. Sept. 1944 (KS); left July 1949; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955; adm. solicitor Mar. 1959; sen. partner Montague Williams & Piper, Hurstpierpoint and Haywards Heath, Sussex; m. 16 June 1956 Cicely Ruth, d. of Col. William Bernard Vince CBE DSO MC, of Northwood, Middlesex; d. 14 Sept. 1996.

LUPPINCOTT, HENRY, son of William Luppincott, Alverdiscott, Devon; b. 11 Nov 1657; adm.; KS 1674; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 May 1676, aged 18; BA 1679/80. [note will Henry Luppincott proved PCC 6 Jul 1698]

LUSHER, ROBERT, of Foulsham, Norfolk; b. 1566; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1581, adm. scholar 1582, matr. Lent 1581/2; BA 1585/6; MA 1589; BD 1601; ordained priest (Lichfield) 1 Jan 1601/2; Curate, Uttoxeter, Staffs.; Vicar of Heckington, Lincs., 1606-17; Curate, Burton on Trent, Staffs., 1609-11; lic. to m. 29 Apr 1616 Marie Simons, widow, Wyberton, Lincs.; d. c. 1617.

Lushington, Mark, son of Stephen Lushington, asst. master at the Sch., sometime housemaster of Liddell’s, and his first wife Maureen Arabella, d. of Maj. John Pook of Edinburgh; b. 14 Dec. 1942; adm. Sept. 1956 (QS); left Dec. 1960; King’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1961, BA 1965, MA 1968; teacher, Hackney LBC; sec. Hackney Teachers Assn. 1997-; m. 1966 Cora, d. of Sidney Kaplan of Northampton, MA, USA; d. 16 Dec. 2014.