Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, was born on January 22, 1858, in Madras, India.

He was a British soldier, explorer, administrator, and author. Entering the British army, he received his commission in 1878 in the Norfolk 9th Foot Regiment, joining the 2nd battalion in India. He also served in the Afghan (1878–1880), Sudan (1884–1885), and Burma (1885) campaigns and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1887. His career was derailed after a catastrophic love affair with a married woman in India. After recovering from Burma fever, he accepted a position with the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1889. He explored the area of the Sabaki River in Kenya and developed a scheme for the emancipation of the slaves held by Arabs in the Zanzibar mainland. Lugard served as Military Administrator of Uganda from 1890 to 1892 and persuaded the British government to adopt Uganda as a protectorate in 1894. In 1894, he was dispatched by the Royal Niger Company to Borgu, where he secured treaties with the kings and chiefs who acknowledged the sovereignty of the British company. In 1897, he became Commissioner for the Hinterland of Nigeria, where he organized the West African Frontier Force and commanded it until 1899. After the declaration of a protectorate over Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1900, he became High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria. Lugard restored peace and order, stopped slave raiding, abolished slavery and the slave trade. He was knighted in 1901 for his service in Nigeria. In 1907, he became Governor of Hong Kong, where he helped establish the University of Hong Kong in 1911. In 1912, Lugard returned to Nigeria as Governor of the two protectorates and was made Governor-General (1914-1919). After he retired in 1919, he acted as the leading authority on the colonial government. From 1922 to 1936, he was a member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations. He was also a member of the international slavery committees (1924-1925, 1932), he served on the Colonial Advisory Committee on Education (1923-1936) and from 1926, he was chairman of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures. Lugard served on the International Labour Organisation's Committee of Experts on Native Labour (1925-1941). He received honorary degrees from Oxford, Durham, Cambridge, Glasgow, and Hong Kong universities. He was also a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal African Society and Royal Empire Society, and a silver medallist of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He wrote, "The Rise of Our East African Empire" (1893) and "Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa" (1922).

In 1902, he married Lady Flora Louise Shaw (1852–1929). He died on April 11, 1945, in Dorking, Surrey, England.

Λουκιανός; Lucianus; born between 115 and 125 in Samosata on the Euphrates, in Roman Syria; died in the late 180s or early 190s.

Mr. St. John Lucas, a vivaceous man of letters; novelist and story-writer and the editor of the Oxford books of French and Italian verse, d. in London, yesterday [23 Oct., 1934]; in his fifty-sixth year; St. John Welles Lucas b. Rugby, 22 Jan., 1879.

Dr. Lucas was professor of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Toronto (BA 1921, MA 1922, PhD. 1923). Dr. Lucas, along with Dr. Henderson, was accredited with having discovered the anesthetic cyclopropane.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, was born April 30, 1834, in London, England.

He was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath. His father was Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803-1865), a London banker, student of mathematics and astronomy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, keenly involved in the scientific debates. The family lived close to Charles Darwin, a great influence on young Lubbock's passion for science and evolutionary theory and a long-standing friend with whom he corresponded frequently. In 1845, he began his studies at Eton College. After finishing school, he was employed by his father's bank, becoming a partner at the age of 22. In 1865, he succeeded to the baronetcy. In the early 1870s, Lubbock became increasingly interested in politics and was elected as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone in 1870 and 1874. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of London (1872–1880). He was elected the first president of the Institute of Bankers in 1879 and in 1883, founded the Bank Clerks Orphanage, now known as the Bankers Benevolent fund. In 1888, he was made president of the London Chamber of Commerce. He was also a founding member of a group of 9 scientists, the X Club. In his books “Pre-historic Times” (1865), a textbook of archaeology, and in “The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man” (1870), he coined the terms Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and Neolithic (New Stone Age). He also wrote, "Ants, Bees, and Wasps" (1882) and "On the Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals" (1888), which established him as a pioneer in the field of animal behaviour.

In 1856, he married Ellen Frances Hordern (1834–1879) and in 1884, he married Alice Augusta Laurentia Lane Fox-Pitt (1862–1947). He died on May 28, 1913, in Broadstairs, Kent, England.