Theophilus Lucas
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Theophilus Lucas
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Theophilus Lucas is known for writing a successful book about gambling. He inherited, according to his own assertion, an estate of £2,000 a year, which he lost at the gaming tables. To deter his son, who was the "very next heir to £1,500 per annum by the death of an uncle", from following his example, or, at best, to put him on his guard against the tricks of card-sharpers, he wrote an entertaining, in places scandalous, book entitled Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of th
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