Emmaline lucas biography
When Emmaline Lucas was born on 12 November , in Unionville, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Miles Lucas, was 23 and her mother.
Known to one and all as 'Lucia', she is Queen of her own domain, the very Tilling-like village of Riseholme....
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Edward Frederic Benson MBE JP
Edward Frederic Benson, or Fred as his family knew him, was born at Wellington College, Berkshire on 24th July 1867. Fred’s father Edward White Benson was the first Headmaster of Wellington College; he later went on to become Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, then the first Bishop of Truro and from 1883 until his death in 1896 was Archbishop of Canterbury.
Fred was educated at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, Surrey between 1878 and 1881 and then went on to Marlborough College. In 1887 Fred and his close friend at Marlborough Eustace Miles both gained scholarships to King’s College, Cambridge.
Fred graduated with an honours degree in archaeology.
On leaving Cambridge he led a small excavation at Chester at the city’s Roman walls, in search of Roman legionary tombstones. Between 1892 and 1897 he worked as an archaeologist on excavations at Luxor and Alexandria in Egy