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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Henry William Lucy (1845–1924)

Lucy, Henry W., Sir. An English journalist and author; born at Crosby, near Liverpool, Dec. 5, 1845; died in 1924. On the death of Tom Taylor, who had written the ‘Essence of Parliament’ for London Punch, he continued the work as ‘The Diary of Toby, M.P.,’ retiring in 1916. He is the author of ‘Men and Manners in Parliament’ (1874); ‘A Handbook of Parliamentary Procedure’ (1880); ‘Gideon Fleyce’ (1882), a novel; ‘East by West’ (1885), an account of a journey round the world; ‘A Diary of Two Parliaments’ (1885–86).