"SIR HENRY LUCY (1845-), English journalist, was born at Crosby near Liverpool Dec. 5 1845. Educated in Liverpool, he began life in a Liverpool merchant's office, but soon became a reporter for a Shrewsbury periodical. In 1870 he joined the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette, London, and in 1873 became Parliamentary reporter to the Daily News, with which paper he had a long connexion in various capacities. In 1881 he also joined the staff of Punch as contributor of its Parliamentary sketch over the signature of " Toby M.P." He was knighted in 1909 and retired from Parliamentary work in 1916. He published his autobiography, Sixty Years in the Wilderness, in 1909, and The Diary of a Journalist in 1920.