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Luck (or Lucke), Robert, 1674-1748
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1674-1748
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.