A childhood friend of Douglas Hinde in Somerset. They were at the same school.

SE - J.P. Lucy - Parklands - May 1908

Foster - Jack Lucey, who had been a hunter for many years and living in Nairobi, where his wife ran the first curio shop, bought J. Scott's farm (Farm 882) for Shs. 10/50 per acre in 1935. The auctioneer was an Australian called Sands (Sandy). Scott, an original soldier settler, had not done much development, but there were farmers at Timau who would have paid Shs. 14/- per acre. Lucey had heard of the Timau area from his son-in-law, Brigadier Channer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) who had also served in the KAR. While Channer was travelling between Meru - where he was the one but last Garrison Commander - and Nairobi, he had often enjoyed fishing for trout in the mountain streams stocked in the 1920s by Raymond Hook of Nanyuki.

Channer's widow, Irene, who was one of the first European children to be born in Kenya (1909), lives on Ol Donyo farm. Her parents, who died in 1946, lie buried on their farm. .......…..

When the Lucys arrived at Timau in 1936 they found almost all the farmers attending polo at Llewellyn's.

Playne - The Nairobi Timber and Milling Company - The vast interests in timber and grain now existing in BEA naturally demand the most up-to-date mills of both kinds procurable. In this respect the needs of the country are supplied by the Nairobi Timber and Milling Co., established in 1904 by Messrs Lucy and Rayne. The mills are under the entire management of Mr J.P. Lucy. Mr Rayne still has a stake in the business but takes no active part. The firm has an interest in 15 square miles of forest on the Kikuyu Escarpment, adjoining the railway line, and the timber consists of cedar, podocarpus and mona. All the timber is rough cut in the forest and railed to Nairobi where it is put through a breakdown saw and afterwards cut to the sizes required by circular saws. The breakdown saw takes a log 4 feet in diameter. The corn mills have a capacity of 200 loads (60 lbs.) per day for maize, oats, or wheat. Grinding and crushing is undertaken for the public. About 120 natives are employed in the forest and about 28 natives in Nairobi, besides 3 Europeans

Land - 1908 - J.P. Lucy - Grazing, 4069 acres, Lukenia, 20-7-07, Registered 12-3-08

Horning - Jack Luce, [sic] a very fine African white hunter who went into the bush after a wounded lion that an American doctor had hit on the run and succeeded only in wounding badly, actually kicked the lion before he saw him. Will that give you any idea about the density of the brush? And while I am speaking of that let me say that when a lion strikes, there is only one thing that you can do to save your life - drop and remain absolutely motionless, letting the lion do just whatever he pleases, because the part of your body that moves is the part which the lion will grab. If you move an arm, he will take the arm. If you move a head, he will crush it like an eggshell. In the instance of Jack Luce, when the lion rose up directly beneath him, Jack instinctively threw an arm in front of his face. In a flash, the lion had the arm, but Luce was thinking as fast as the lion was acting. Immediately he dropped and let the lion have his arm - and the lion took it. However, it saved Luce's life because while the lion was spending his time taking off Luce's arm, the doctor arrived on the spot and shot the lion off Luce. This will demonstrate in a way the cool cold nerve of African white hunters.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Machakos - J.P. Lucy, Kitanga, Athi River

Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 7/8/05, age 29, Engineer, Nairobi, John Puckmore Lucy

Machakos - 1914 - Later in the year Jack Lucy, then manager for Major Morrison at Kitanga, bought a T Ford Box Body

First Wheel - 1928 - Guest safari - "Jack Lucy I took to at once. As cheerful as they come ……….. Jack Lucy was a very amusing, jolly, personality. Most likeable in every way. He had rather a beetling brow and a large bulbous nose, also on the pink side. He was comfortably overweight.

Red Book 1912 - J.P. Lucy - Nairobi

Gazette 15/10/1907 - Dissolution of partnership between John Puckmore Lucy and Jemima Farquarson Rayne under the title 'Lucy and Rayne' in the trade or business of grain and flour millers and timber sawyers dissolved by mutual consent and business will be carried on by John Puckmore Lucy.

Gazette 1/3/1922 - Petition for Insolvency - John P. Lucy of Nairobi

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - Alice May Lucy - Married woman, Machakos

Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Ulu - J.P. Lucy