The church of St. Mary the Virgin at Tichmarsh, of which Arthur Luckock was vicar for more than 30 years.
Arthur Luckock, Born 1880
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Arthur Luckock was one of the three sons of Herbert Luckock, Dean of Lichfield Cathedral. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as a priest at Peterborough in 1907. In 1912, at the age of 32, Lord Lilford offered him the living at Tichmarsh, near Kettering. Arthur accepted this, and remained there as a country parson for 36 years, until his death in 1948. In 1934 he was offered promotion to a role as a Canon at Peterborough Cathedral, but he declined the offer, wishing to remain at Tichmarsh. During the Second World War stray bombs fell on the village, narrowly missing the Rectory, and setting fire to neighbouring farm buildings. On September 2nd 1945 Arthur Luckock rang the church bell to celebrate the end of the Second World War, just as he had rung it on November 11th 1918 to celebrate the end of the First World War.
Source: This life story is an extract archived in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from the book A Short History of the Descendants of Thomas Luckock of Coalbrookdale. The book was written by Arthur Luckock’s brother Edward, and was privately published in 1949. It was contributed to Lives Retold by Jane Corbett, great granddaughter of Edward Russell.
Connected life stories:
His father: Luckock, Herbert. Born 1833. (35 pages). Dean of Lichfield Cathedral.
His brothers:
Luckock, Edward. Born 1871. (101 pages). Land agent.
Luckock, Russell. Born 1877. (19 pages). Army officer in the Boer and First World Wars.