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Lionel Lukin

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Lionel Lukin
Born(1742-05-18)18 May 1742
Great Dunmow, Essex, England
Died16 February 1834(1834-02-16) (aged 91)
Hythe, Kent, England
NationalityEnglish
Known forLifeboat

Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 – 16 February 1834)[1][2] was a British inventor and lifeboat designer.[3]

Private and professional life

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Lukin was born in Great Dunmow, Essex, on 18 May 1742. He was apprenticed by a local coachbuilder and later established a business in Long Acre, London. He became the Master of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers.[4][5]

He had a house in Chelsea and retired to Hythe, Kent, where he took an active interest in matters of the church. He died on 16 February 1834 and is buried in St Leonard's churchyard.[5][6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Edmund Burke, ed. (1835). Annual Register, 1834. London: Baldwin and Craddock... pp. 213. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  2. ^ Sylvanus Urban, ed. (1834). "Obituary – Lionel Lukin Esq". The Gentleman's Magazine. New Series. Vol. II (July to December ed.). pp. 653–654.
  3. ^ H. M. Chichester, R. C. Cox (2007). Lukin, Lionel (1742–1834). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17170 (subscription required)
  4. ^ Sharp, Robin (1992). "Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor". Lifeboat. Vol. 52, no. 520. p. 224.
  5. ^ a b Martin, Frank (1985). "Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor". Lifeboat. Vol. 49, no. 492. pp. 200–201.
  6. ^ "Sketch of the progress made in the construction of coast life-boats (Part 1)". Life-boat. Vol. 17, no. 195. 1900. pp. 537–542.

Further reading

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  • Robus, Frederick (1925). Lionel Lukin of Dunmow: The Inventor of the Lifeboat. Robus Brothers.
  • Malster, Robert, ed. (2013). The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society... and the world's first sailing lifeboat. Suffolk Records Society, vol. 56. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-805-0.
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