There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Rupert Hart-Davis collected and publiE. V. Lucasd a collection of Lucas's essays Cricket All His Life which John Arlott called "the best written of all books on cricket. Born to a Quaker family on the fringes of London Lucas began work at the age of sixteen apprenticed to a bookseller. Eminently readable he is read without being remembered; unusually quotable he was never quoted much and seems never to be quoted any more.

Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in 1904 and remained there for the rest of his life. Born to a Quaker family on the fringes of London Lucas began work at the age of sixteen apprenticed to a bookseller.