Herbert Mortimer Luckock

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Memorial to Herbert Mortimer Luckock in Lichfield Cathedral

Herbert Mortimer Luckock (11 July 1833

Anglican priest in the Church of England
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Life

Luckock was born in 1833 at

Dean of Lichfield Cathedral until his death in 1909 aged 75.[3][4]

In youth Luckock had played cricket for Shrewsbury School when he appeared in one county match for Shropshire in 1853.[5]

Personal life

He married Margret Emma Thompson in Childwall Church on 5 April 1866. They had eight children, including Maj.-Gen. Russell Mortimer Luckock.[2]

Writings

Luckock authored the following works:

  • Tables of Stone (1867)
  • Studies in the History of the Prayer Book (1881)
  • An Appeal to the Church not to withdraw her Clergy from Universities (1882)
  • Footprints of the Son of Man as traced by St. Mark (1884)
  • The Bishops in the Tower
  • After Death, the State of the Faithful Dead and their Relationship to the Living (1887)
  • The Divine Liturgy, being The Order for Holy Communion, historically, doctrinally, and devotionally set forth (1889)
  • The Intermediate State between Death and Judgment (1890)
  • John Wesley's Churchmanship (1891)
  • Who are Wesley's Heirs? (1892)
  • The Church in Scotland (1893)
  • History of Marriage, Jewish and Christian, with especial Reference to its Indissolubility and certain forbidden Degrees (1894)
  • Footprints of the Apostles as traced by St. Luke in the Acts (2 vols., 1897)
  • Four Qualifications for a Good Preacher (1897)
  • The Characteristics of the Four Gospels (1900)
  • Beautiful Life of an Ideal Priest; or, Reminiscences of Thomas Thellusson Carter (1902)
  • Life and Works of Dr. Johnson (1902)
  • Spiritual Difficulties in the Bible and Prayer Book: Helps to their Solution (1905)
  • Eucharistic Sacrifice and Intercession for the Departed (1907)

Luckock also edited

James Russell Woodford
's Great Commission: Twelve Addresses on the Ordinal (London, 1886) and Sermons (2 vols., 1887).

External links

References

  1. ^ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
  2. ^ a b c "Luckock, Herbert Mortimer (LKK854HM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ A short biographical account of Luckock in the Encyclopedia of Living Divines from 1887.
  4. ^ Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). "Luckock, Herbert Mortimer" . Dictionary of National Biography – via Wikisource.
  5. .Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.