George Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth

George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth (29 March 1896 – 11 October 1967), was a British businessman and Labour politician.

Lucas was the son of Percy William Lucas and Annette Lucy Lucas of Oxford. He was involved in the motor trade industry and served during the Second World War as Chairman of the National Joint Industrial Council of the Motor Vehicle Retail and Repairing Trade. In 1946 he was given a peerage by the Labour government of Clement Attlee as Baron Lucas of Chilworth, of Chilworth in the County of Southampton. He then served under Attlee as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1948 to 1949, as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1950 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1950 to 1951. However, he later fell out with the Labour Party over nationalisation and moved to the cross-benches.

The future Lord Lucas married Sonia Finkelstein (died 1979), the daughter of Marcus Finkelstein, a Latvian fishing-industry tycoon, in 1917. He died in October 1967, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Michael, who became a Conservative government minister. His second son, Ivor Lucas, became a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Syria and Oman.

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    Political offices
    Preceded by
    The Lord Henderson
    Lord-in-Waiting
    1948–1949
    Succeeded by
    The Lord Darwen
    Preceded by
    The Lord Shepherd
    Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
    1949–1950
    Succeeded by
    The Earl of Lucan
    Preceded by
    James Callaghan
    Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
    1950–1951
    Succeeded by
    Joseph Gurney Braithwaite
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    New Creation
    Baron Lucas of Chilworth
    1946-1967
    Succeeded by
    Michael William George Lucas
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