VENN: Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Apr. 12, 1836. S. of Frederick [Corbin] (and Elizabeth Collings). B. [Apr. 8, 1817] in Guernsey. Schools [Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and Blackheath Proprietary School] Kent. ' Matric. Lent, 1837; B.A. 1840; M.A. 1843. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1854. Antiquary and authority on perspective drawing. F.S.A., 1855, and Fellow of Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen. Ord. deacon (Salisbury) 1841; priest, 1842; C. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., 1841-6. P.C. of East Grafton, 1846-50. V. of Great Bedwyn, 1850-5. R. of Collingbourne-Ducis, 1855-62. Domestic Chaplain to the Marquess of Ailesbury, 1850-81. R. of Wath-juxta-Ripon, 1862-92. Married and had issue (a dau. Augusta G. F., who married Henry Cecil Bickersteth, 1879). Author, An Account of Church Bells; Specimens of Ancient Church Plate, Sepulchral Crosses; The Prehistoric Stone Monuments of the British Isles, etc. Died Dec. 7, 1892, at Wath rectory. Brother of the above (Francis Du Bois Lukis). (Al. Oxon.; Elizabeth Coll. Reg.; Boase, Biblio. Cornub., I. 329, and Supp. 1271; Crockford; J. W. Kirby; Burke, Family Records; The Guardian, Dec. 14, 1892.)
| Year | Type | Name as Recorded | Location | Office/Status | Full Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1846 | Subsc | Lukis, William Collings | Great Bedwin / East Grafton | Perpetual Curate | View |