Henry 'Harry' Lucy at Boodles Journalist

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Sir Charles G. Duff 'Cloister' (fl.1899-1903)
Henry 'Harry' Lucy at Boodles
Journalist
signed with initials and dated 'CGD/1899' (lower right), inscribed 'Harry' (lower centre) and further inscribed 'Poor Devils I couldn't/eat them myself.' (upper left)
pencil and watercolour with touches of white heightening, on blue tinted paper, unframed
9¾ x 9 in. (24.8 x 22.8 cm.)

Literature

Sir Matthew Leslie Ward, Forty Years of 'Spy', published by Chatto & Windus, London, p. 229.

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Lot Essay

Sir Henry Lucy (1843-1924), born in Lancashire, was the son of Robert Lucy. He started his career in journalism working for the Shrewsbury Chronicle (1864), the local Observer and the Shropshire News, before moving to Paris in 1869. In 1870, he worked for the Pall Mall Gazette and then the London Daily News (1873), eventually becoming Editor. Using the nom de plume 'Toby, M.P.', he contributed to Punch from 1881 to 1916. Knighted in 1909, he wrote several books including Sixty Years in the Wilderness and The Diary of a Journalist (1922).

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