| St. John Lucas | |
| Birth Name: | St. John Welles Lucas-Lucas |
| Birth Date: | 22 January 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Rugby, England |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Education: | University College, Oxford |
St. John Welles Lucas-Lucas (18791934), commonly known as St. John Lucas, was an English poet known for his anthologies of verse.
St. John Lucas was born in Rugby, Warwickshire on 22 January 1879.[1] He was educated at University College, Oxford. He was from 1905 a friend and mentor of Rupert Brooke.[2]
Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window. His The Oxford Book of French Verse was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907. A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the title Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People.[3]
He is described in Mike Read's Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke as "a homosexual aesthete".[4]
He died in London on 23 October 1934, and was cremated at Golders Green.[1] [5]