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Sir Harry Luke
I've been asked to help trace the resting place of Sir Harry Charles Luke (born Harry Charles Lukach) KCMG, GCStJ, D.Litt. of Oxford (1938) and honorary LLD of Malta, born London 1884 - died Cyprus 1969. He was an official in the British Colonial Office and had served in Barbados, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Malta, the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji.
All records, including The London Times' obituary, refer to his death but couldn't trace where he's buried. Rgds, b_g |
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Re Sir H. C. Luke
Luke's literary output was prolific, extending even to a witty cookery compendium, The Tenth Muse (1954). Perhaps most enduring were his books on Malta (1949) and Cyprus (1957). His three-volume autobiography, Cities and Men (1953–6) was one of the most engaging, if not most revealing, of his generation. Ronald Storrs, whose experience was scarcely confined, said that Luke had lived ‘the most unwasted life of any man I have known’ (DNB). Luke was appointed CMG in 1926, knighted in 1933, and promoted KCMG in 1939. He was a DLitt of Oxford (1938) and an honorary LLD of the Royal University of Malta. Luke died in Cyprus on 11 May 1969; his ashes were interred in the crypt of the conventual church of the order of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, London.
I do hope this of some help. yours faithfully Alfred Wilbur |
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