William Collings Lukis

Revd. William Collings Lukis MA FSA
Born	1817
Died	1892
Residence	Wath Rectory, Ripon [in A31/2/2 list Aug 20 1866 this address crossed out in favour of:] Rue de l'Heronniere, Nantes (through Foreign Office) BUT Wath Rectory, Ripon [1869]
Occupation	antiquarian church archaeologist
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1872.10.22 resigned elected_AI 1864 elected_ASL 1864.05.17 societies Society of Antiquaries

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Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. FSA (8 April 1817, Guernsey - 7 December 1892, Wath, North Yorkshire) was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath.

Mr. Lukis was not only an archaeologist of world-wide eminence but was also a considerable authority on geology, botany and other branches of natural science. He had long been an obser- vant traveller in various parts of Europe, Africa, America, etc. More especially in the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Italy, and Algeria; and his writings and researches show that accurate and intimate knowledge of those countries which he acquired from careful personal investigations.
...Mr. Lukis, who was a prominent Free Mason, and a J.P. for Wiltshire

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Mr. Lukis was the author of many works on barrows, and other pre- historic monuments, and was a practical barrow digger on an ex- tensive scale, in various parts of England, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. The Society of Antiquaries, London, published his scale plans of Rude Stone Monuments, with descrip- tive text. He also edited, for the Surtees Society, Dr. William Stukeley's Diaries and Letters, published in three volumes; and when the Ripon Millenary Festival was celebrated, in 1886, he was an active member of the committee, which was formed to carry out the arrangements, and wrote an interesting and valua- ble article entitled " Ancient Ripon," since included in Mr. W. Harrison's " Millenary Record" (a beautifully illustrated volume published at Ripon, in 1892).