Matthias Lucas' busts go to Hastings (1879)

Post date: Feb 26, 2012 6:37:4 PM

Extract from Hastings and St. Leonard's Observer, 20th September 1879

Presentation the Baths Company.—A presentation has recently been made to the Baths Company by Mr. George Hemmings, of Gensing Station-road, St. Leonards, of four busts and pedestals. These are from the collection at Mr. Alderman Lucas's Mansion, Wateringbury, and are representations of George Canning, Statesman, Marshal Ney, the Duke of Wellington, and Bismarck. The busts will fixed in the gentlemen's bath shortly, and doubt will prove valuable acquisition.