Robert Slade Lucas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Slade Lucas
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1867
Place of Birth: Teddington, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 05-Jan-1942
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Robert Slade Lucas
- Robert Slade Lucas (17 July 1867, Teddington, Middlesex – 5 January 1942, Franklands Village, Haywards Heath, Sussex) was an English cricketer who played for Middlesex.
- He was a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium paced bowler.
- He captained a team to the West Indies in 1894-95. Scores and Biographies Volume XV (1925) records that 'LUCAS, Robert Slade, whose first match at Lord's was on 5 May 1887, for Eighteen Colts of Middlesex v M.C.C., was a batsman above the average, who could hit freely and well, a medium-paced bowler, and a fieldsman who took no place in particular.
- His name will be found in the Middlesex Eleven from 1891 to 1900, his highest score for the county being 185 v Sussex at Hove in 1895, when he and Mr.
- T.C.
- O'Brien (202) put on 338 runs together for the fifth wicket.
- In the same year he appeared in the Gentlemen v Players match at the Oval.
- In minor cricket he played chiefly with the Richmond and Teddington clubs, and for some time was honorary secretary of the latter.
- In 1891 he was elected captain of the Old Merchant Taylors, who played their first match in 1892.
- Was born at Ash Lodge, Teddington, Middlesex, on 17 July 1867.
- Height 5 ft.
- 11 in., and weight 12 st.
- 2 lb.
- Slade was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, where he was captain of the Eleven in 1885.
- In the course of an innings of 141 not out for Old Taylorians v Merchant Taylors School at Charterhouse Square on 3 July 1891, he hit the ball out of the ground seven times, twice in succession through the same window of a private house.
- At Bushy Park on 16 May 1896, he scored 280 not out for Teddington v Kensington Park.
- In 1894-5 he took a team on tour in the West indies, after having visited North America in the autumn of 1894 as a member of Lord Hawke's Team.
- For many years he was captain of the Teddington Hockey Club.
- Is not related to any other well-known cricketer of the same name'
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