John Randolph Lucas 1929 - 2020
It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of John Randolph Lucas FBA, Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy from 1960 to 1996.
According to one of his students, Richard Bronk (1979), writing in Postmaster on the occasion of Lucas’ retirement:
“Throughout a long and distinguished career, his approach to philosophy and to the teaching of it was idiosyncratic, complex and sometimes controversial. … As a philosopher, John stood out from his contemporaries not only in the eloquence of his prose, but also in the sheer breadth of his published output – covering ethics, theology, physics, mathematical logic and, latterly, economics.
“As a tutor, John was also notable for his hospitality and kindness – readily sharing his home-made cider, and ferreting out of the Bodleian those revising too hard for Finals to take them for a walk among the bluebells of Wytham Woods.”
A longer obituary will appear in this year’s edition of Postmaster & The Merton Record.
