| Administrative History | Francis Edward Lucey (1877-1956) was born in Henley-on-Thames. On graduating from Worcester College Oxford he was ordained and appointed to a parish in Rainford, Lancashire. In 1905 he was accepted by the CMS as a missionary in North India. Later that same year he sailed for the Punjab and Sindh Mission where he took up the position of vice -principal at the Tyndale Biscoe School, Srinagar in Kashmir. In 1907 he married Helen Bridger but by 1913 Rev Lucey was forced to resign due to her ill health. After her death in 1914 he was reaccepted by the CMS to his former post. In 1915 he married Winifred Saxby. The couple remained in India until 1921 when they returned to England and retired to Cornwall. Rev Lucey died there in 1956.
Reference: Register of CMS Missionaries unpublished manuscript addition 1905-1908 |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS September 1991 |