100 In Memoriam, William Collins LuMs, M.A., F.S.A. 



was educated partly at Elizabeth College in that island, partly ia 

 France (where he acquired a perfect knowledge of the French 

 language), and subsequently at Blackheath, passing on to Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, in 1836, where he graduated in honours in 1840. 



In 1841 he was ordained deacon at Salisbury by Bishop Denison, 

 and held the Curacy of Bradford-on-Avon under Canon Harvey ; 

 and subsequently he held successively the livings of East Grafton, 

 Great Bedwyn, and Collingbourne Ducis, all in this Diocese, and 

 lastly Wath, in Yorkshire, to all of which he was in turn presented 

 by the patron who appreciated him, the then Marquis of Ailesbury. 

 In every one of these parishes he either restored the Church or re- 

 built the schools, and in most of them he accomplished both these 

 works. He was also an active Rural Dean, as well in the Diocese 

 of Ripon as in that of Salisbury, He died at Wath Rectory, after 

 a prolonged illness, on December 7th, 1892, aged 75. 



As to his archaeological work (which more especially belongs to 

 these pages) Mr. Lukis was indefatigable in his exertions both in 

 this country and in France. "While at Cambridge he was one of the 

 early members of the Camden Society, which indeed he helped to 

 originate; and while Curate of Bradford he published a quarto 

 volume of " Ancient Church Plate," which was the precursor of the 

 Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, edited by the Ecclesiological (late Camden) 

 Society, under the able superintendence of Mr. Butterfield, the 

 well-known architect. Next he published two addresses to the rural 

 deans and churchwardens, on the necessity of examining the condition 

 of Church bells, with a view to their preservation, and the security 

 of Church towers. This was followed in 1S55 by a paper read before 

 our Society at Salisbury on the same subject, and which subsequently 

 culminated in the excellent volume well known to us all, entitled 

 " An Account of Church Bells." 



But perhaps it was as a barrow-digger and cromlech explorer that 

 Mr. Lukis laboured hardest as an archseologist. His first diggings 

 were in the Guernsey cromlechs, and he explored many of the Brittany 

 dolmens. Our Magazine contains notes of his excavations at Col- 

 lingbourne, and we have ourselves seen him and indeed taken part 

 in his work both in opening barrows and investigating the interior 



