Frederick Lucas
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Frederick Lucas (1812 - 1855) was a British religious polemicist and founder of The Tablet.
Lucas was a Quaker convert to Catholicism.[1]
In 1840, Lucas founded The Tablet, published in London, a progressive international Catholic weekly newspaper, just 11 years before the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. It is the second oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator (which was founded in 1828). It has an international readership of over 55,000.
In 1852 he became MP for Meath. Lucas died in 1855, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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"Frederick Lucas". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
