William Lucas

William Vincent Lucas was the inaugural Bishop of Masasi during the first half of the 20th century. Born on 20 June 1883 and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St Catherine's Society in the same city, he was made deacon on 23 December 1906, by George Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells, at Wells Cathedral. After a curacy at St Michael's Shepton Beauchamp he went to Tanzania as a missionary. He was later the provost and sub-dean of Masasi Collegiate Church and a canon of Zanzibar before his ordination to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on Michaelmas (29 September) 1926, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. He died on 8 July 1945. References 1883 births People educated at Rossall School Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford English Anglican missionaries Provosts of the Anglican Church of Tanzania 20th-century Anglican bishops in Tanzania Anglican bishops of Masasi 1945 deaths Anglican missionaries in Tanzania