Name Bryan Keith-Lucas | Parents Keith Lucas | |
Died 1996, Canterbury, United Kingdom Books A history of local government in the twentieth century, The unreformed local government system Education Gresham's School, Pembroke College, Cambridge | ||
Bryan Keith-Lucas CBE (previously Bryan Lucas, born Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, 1 August 1912, died Canterbury, Kent, 1996) was an English political scientist.
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Education
The son of Keith Lucas, a physiologist and instrument designer, Keith-Lucas (who changed his surname in honour of his father) was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read history and economics.
Career
Bryan Keith-Lucas joined the town clerk's department at Kensington, London, and qualified as a solicitor in 1937. During the Second World War he served with the Buffs and Sherwood Foresters in north Africa, Italy, and Cyprus, and was Mentioned in Despatches, ending the war as a major.
He then returned to local government in Nottingham. In 1948 he became senior lecturer in local government at Oxford University, and in 1950 a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He served as an Oxford city councillor for the Liberal Party, sat on several government committees, and advised on aspects of local government for Britain's former colonies.
In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent. He retired in 1977 and taught politics part-time at King's School, Canterbury. In the last years of his life, he lived at Wye, Kent.
Family
Keith-Lucas married Mary Hardwicke in 1946. They had a son, and two daughters. He was the brother of David Keith-Lucas (1911–1997), an aeronautical engineer, and of Alan Keith-Lucas.