George Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth

George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth (29 March 1896 – 11 October 1967), was a British businessman and Labour politician.

Lucas was the son of Percy William Lucas and Annette Lucy Lucas of Oxford. He was involved in the motor trade industry and served during the Second World War as Chair of the National Joint Industrial Council of the Motor Vehicle Retail and Repairing Trade. On 27 June 1946 he was given a peerage by the Labour government of Clement Attlee as Baron Lucas of Chilworth, of Chilworth in the County of Southampton.[1] He then served under Attlee as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1948 to 1949, as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1950 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1950 to 1951. However, he later fell out with the Labour Party over nationalisation and moved to the cross-benches.

The future Lord Lucas married Sonia Finkelstein (died 1979), the daughter of Marcus Finkelstein, a Latvian fishing-industry tycoon, in 1917. He died in October 1967, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Michael, who became a Conservative government minister. His second son, Ivor Lucas, became a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Syria and Oman.

Coat of arms of George Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth
Crest
A Representation of Apollo affrontée Or
Escutcheon
Per fess wavy Or and Azure in chief between two Annulets a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper and in base two Bars wavy Argent surmounted by a Bull's Head caboshed Sable
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion Or; Sinister: a Russian Bear Sable, each resting the interior paw upon an Annulet therein a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper
Motto
Labor Vincit Omnia (Labour Conquers All)[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ "No. 37637". The London Gazette. 2 July 1946. p. 3394.
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.

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Political offices
Preceded by Lord-in-waiting
1948–1949
Succeeded by
Preceded by Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
1949–1950
Succeeded by
Preceded by Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
1950–1951
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Lucas of Chilworth
1946–1967
Succeeded by