Watt - 'with two other men, were mounted upon horses. While riding along Lucas found that he was approaching a lioness, and raising his rifle from the saddle he fired at the animal and wounded her severely. Nevertheless she immediately charged, and leaping upon the horse brought him and his rider instantly to the ground. The feline then let go the horse and caught Lucas, who in a moment of time was torn and lacerated in a frightful manner. One of his friends shot the lioness, tossing her over, but already her deadly work had been done, and poor Mr Lucas succumbed.'

Jordan - .... Lucas shared a farm along the Athi with his partner Gibbons. They jumped a lion while riding along the tall river grass one morning, and raced after it. The lion went into the grass with a sudden swerve and as Gibbons' pony went by it sprang. It put its right fore paw into the pony, its left into Gibbons' thigh. It held itself there and clawed at the pony's rump with its hind-claws. Gibbons could not get his gun to bear on the lion and all three went down. Lucas was afraid to shoot from the saddle, so he jumped off and ran forward and then the lion turned on him in a spring and took him down. Gibbons crawled from beneath the kicking pony and killed the lion.

They got Lucas to Nairobi Hospital and the doctors looked at him and said they would have been far happier had they seen him earlier, for the poison from the lion's claws had taken hold of Lucas's legs and if he wished to live it would have to be without those legs. Lucas thought about this, and what it would be like in Africa for him without his legs, and he decided calmly that he would die instead. He lay in the hospital for two more days while the poison went up slowly from his thighs to his body, and he asked the doctors if there would be another day for him and they said there would not. So he called for his friends, and they came in and sat with him drinking whisky and soda, and they toasted him a happy death and he toasted them a long life, and so he died.  

Kill - Riding down lions on horseback - Blayney Percival, G.H. Goldfinch (who later joined the Game Warden's Dept.), and Lucas, a settler at El Donyo Sabuk were the first to attempt to put the plan into practice. It ended in a terrible tragedy. Goldfinch was first attacked, and was badly bitten through the thigh. Then Lucas was attacked, the lion got him down and mauled him terribly before Goldfinch could crawl to his aid. As soon as Lucas had wriggled clear of the brute's head, Goldfinch shot her dead at close range. Percival had been hunting down a lion elsewhere and was not in sight. Lucas died in fearful pain a week later. Goldfinch made a remarkable recovery but was lamed for life.

Rundgren - Two settlers, Lucas and Goldfinch, were ambushed by a lion they were riding down, after it disappeared behind a bush and attacked as they galloped past. Goldfinch was unhorsed and bitten and clawed, and Lucas, going to his assistance, was killed.  

Percival - Do not follow lion into thick cover - Poor Lucas of El Donyo Sabuk was killed and G.H. Goldfinch of the Game Dept. was mauled through neglect of this rule. They were after a lioness which sought refuge in some long grass and rashly went in after her. She first attacked Goldfinch, biting him through the thigh. Lucas, seeing it, jumped off his pony and fired, when she left Goldfinch and rushed at him, pulling him down as he tried to mount and mauling him terribly. Goldfinch, in his turn, went to the rescue, crawling through the grass with his disabled leg dragging, and arrived within a yard or two of Lucas lying with the lioness upon him. Obeying the word Lucas raised his arm, affording Goldfinch a clear shot at the brute's head which killed her on the spot. All the wounds Lucas had sustained were on his face and arm, so, once helped upon his horse he was able to keep the saddle, and rode for the farm. Goldfinch was in a different plight, bitten through the thigh, but he contrived somehow to remount and slowly made his way home. Arriving, he first attended to Lucas and did all he could for him before he attempted to look after his own injuries. News of the accident reaching me the same evening, I went out with the doctor and brought them both in. Everything was done for them, but Lucas died a week later. He had been fearfully mangled by tooth and claw.

Advertiser - 28/8/1908 - little bridesmaid at wedding of G.L. Langridge and Miss L.M. Coldham - Miss Doris Lucas of Donyo Sabuk

Kingsley-Heath - has 'George Lucas'

North - Land Grant application Donyo Sabuk 10-1-1904 & 18-2-1904; Settlers Game Licence 26-3-1904; Landholders Game Licence Nairobi Oct-Dec 1905

Nairobi South cemetery - Halford E. Coldham Lucas, born Sep 1872, died 2 June 1906, died from lion wounds

Nairobi South cemetery - Mrs H.E.C. Lucas's memorial is on the grave of 'Simoes child' ?

Nairobi South cemetery - Dorothy Lucas, born 25 Sep 1868 died 14 Jan 1911 [his sister]

UK Foreign and Overseas Registers gives 10 May as date of death lion mauling, exhaustion but Nat Probate Calendar gives 10 June. The Register (signed by the attending doctor will be correct)

His sister Miriam (1874-14 Apr 1911) died in Nairobi, as did his sister Dorothy (1968 Weybourne, Norfolk-14 Jan 1911 Nairobi)