Lives in Cricket No 13 - AP Lucas

with the North-West Corporation. Sadly, Lucas did not have long to enjoy it, for he died there, suddenly, on 12 October 1923. Lucas had continued to serve as a churchwarden in Fryerning and his funeral took place there four days later. Among the mourners were Charles Kortright and his brother William; Frank Penn, who toured Australia with Lucas in 1878/79; C.E.Ridley, his Uppingham Rovers team-mate and former landlord; and S.S.Storey, formerly Schultz, Lucas’s lifelong colleague in the cricket field and on the Stock Exchange, who had to change his surname as a result of anti-German sentiment in World War I. There were also representatives of various organisations Lucas had been involved with, including MCC, Essex County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen of Essex, Chelmsford Cricket Club and the wardens of Chelmsford Cathedral. It was a tribute to Lucas that, when Charles Kortright died almost thirty years later, he chose to be buried not in the grand family vault next to the church but in a humble grave close to his old friend. And for Lucas, there could have been no more appropriate resting-place than a quiet country churchyard in the county where he made the second half of his life. Bunny, Korty and Fryerning, 1885-1923 125 Kortright’s grave