Colonel Spencer Lucy, M.D.

Biography

Spencer Lucy was born in March 1616 in Of, Warwickshire, , England. His parents were Sir Thomas Lucy, Kt., MP and Alicia Lucy (Spencer). Spencer married Mary Lucy (Brett). He died in 1649.

He graduated from Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1643 with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) He fought in the English Civil War and gained the rank of Colonel in the Royalists.

Haversham Manor

Thomas, son and heir of the latter, succeeded to Haversham, dying in 1640. He was followed by his eldest son Spenser Lucy, whose widow, with her second husband William Sheldon, quitclaimed the manor in 1653 to Robert Lucy, brother of Spencer.

• Sir Bernard Burke, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 7th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1886), page 1152.
• John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain (London, U.K.: n.pub., 1846), volume III, page 100.
• Burkes Peerage 2003 volume 3, page 3264.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p32133.htm#i321325
• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp366-372#fnn11