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Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (5 December 1842〔Most early references give 5 December 1845 as the birthdate, as did Lucy himself. DNB cites a baptism in April 1843 and gives a putative birthdate of March 1843. English civil registration records the birth as being registered in the first quarter of 1843, as William Henry Lucy (Derby Vol:XX Page:863 ). Thus 5 December 1842 seems the most likely date of birth.〕 – 20 February 1924) was an English journalist and humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. ==Life and career== Henry Lucy was born in Crosby, near Liverpool in 1842, the son of Robert Lucy, a rose-engine turner in the watch trade, and his wife, Margaret Ellen Kemp. He was baptised on 23 April 1843 at St. Michael's Church, Crosby. While he was still an infant the family removed to Everton, Liverpool, where he attended the private Crescent School until August 1856; thereafter until 1864 he was junior clerk to Robert Smith, hide merchant, of Redcross Street, Liverpool. He worked as a clerk, and had poetry published in the ''Liverpool Mercury''; taught himself shorthand. Worked for the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' as chief reporter (1864),〔Bi-centenary souvenir.〕 Shrewsbury's local ''Observer'', and the ''Shropshire News''. Before giving notice to the ''Chronicle'' he wrote leader articles for the other Shrewsbury papers which mostly replied to his own leaders in the ''Chronicle'' the week before, besides writing 'penny-a-liners' of Shropshire news for London newspapers. Lucy married on 29 October 1873 Emily Anne (1847–1937), daughter of his old schoolmaster at Liverpool, John White. There were no children of the marriage. Lived in Paris during 1869, and learned French. After returning to England he wrote for ''Pall Mall Gazette'' from 1870, for ''Daily News'' from 1873 (and of which he was the editor): and for ''Punch'' from 1881. Used the nom-de-plume "Toby, M.P." from 1881 to 1916. Wrote the weekly column "''The Essence of Parliament''" in ''Punch'' magazine for 35 years. When not writing under one of his pseudonyms, he was usually styled ''Henry W. Lucy''. In 1880, he began writing for ''The Observer'' the ''Cross bench'' column, which continued for twenty-nine years. His remarkable flair for politics and parliamentary affairs soon brought him to the front rank of his profession. Lucy's lasting memorial is in the volumes he compiled from his ''Punch'' parliamentary sketches: ''A Diary of Two Parliaments'' (2 vols., 1885–6);'' A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886–1892'' (1892); ''A Diary of the Home Rule Parliament, 1892–1895'' (1896); ''A Diary of the Unionist Parliament, 1895–1900'' (1901); and ''The Balfourian Parliament, 1900–1905'' (1906). These amount to a history of the Commons in its heyday, and have been extensively mined by historians. Knighted in 1909, he was the first lobby correspondent to be seen as the social equal of the politicians in the Commons whom he reported. His London home was at 42 Ashley Gardens, and he was a member of the National Liberal Club. He died of bronchitis at ''Whitethorn'', his country house at Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent in 1924, aged 81.〔 Sir Henry Lucy left a huge sum of money, over £250,000,〔probate, 14 April 1925, £263,672 1s. 5d., ''CGPLA Eng. & Wales''〕 and was probably the wealthiest Victorian journalist who was not also a newspaper proprietor. In his will he endowed a "Sir William Henry Lucy Bed" at Shrewsbury's Royal Salop Infirmary "in memory of his pleasant connection with Shrewsbury" as a journalist.〔From list of beds and cots endowed "in perpetuity".〕 In 1935, his widow Lady Lucy donated £1,000 to found the ''Sir Henry Lucy Scholarship'' at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. There are several portraits of Sir Henry Lucy at the National Portrait Gallery, including one by John Singer Sargent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Lucy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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