Samuel Lucas

Samuel Lucas (1748-1799) was originally from Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He was educated at Mile End and Homerton Academy between 1768 and 1773. He began his ministry at Walsall in 1773 before removing to the Independent chapel at Swan Hill, Shrewsbury, in July 1779. He would remain there as pastor until a paralytic seizure led to his retirement in May 1797 and his death in 1799. See Ernest Elliot, A History of Congregationalism in Shropshire (Oswestry: Woodall and Minshall, 1898), 24.