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Name: LUCK, Cecil Percy

Nee: son of Charles Cardale Luck of Gwonongween, Lumbwa

Birth Date: 16 Apr 1917 Stockholm, Sweden

Death Date: 18 Jan 2008 Johannesburg

First Date: 1921

Profession: Professor of physiology

Area: Lumbwa

Married: Anne Elizabeth Elmer

Children: Cicely Anne (Von Straten) (1947); Rob? Leslie Luck (1949); Peter Cardale (1954)

Book Reference: Kenton, Web

School: Kenton College - left 1930 for College in Sweden; BSc, MBBCh (Professor)

General Information:

Web - Born in Sweden, Luck relocated with his family to Kenya in 1921. He returned to Sweden at the age of 12 to be an apprentice to a blacksmith and carpenter, received a Swedish matriculation and then went to Witwatersrand University to study medicine, thereafter specialising in physiology …….. Later taught at Makerere and then Witwatersrand

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