Lionel Lukin

Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 – 16 February 1834)[1][2] was a British inventor and lifeboat designer.[3]

For the Australian judge, see Lionel Lukin (judge).

Lionel Lukin
Born(1742-05-18)18 May 1742
Great Dunmow, Essex
Died16 February 1834(1834-02-16) (aged 91)
Hythe, Kent
NationalityEngland
Known forlifeboat

Bibliography
  • Frederick Robus: Lionel Lukin of Dunmow: The Inventor of the Lifeboat. Robus Broth. 1925

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References
  1. Edmund Burke, ed. (1835). Annual Register, 1834. London: Baldwin and Craddock... pp. 213. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  2. Sylvanus Urban, ed. (1834). "Obituary - Lionel Lukin Esq". The Gentleman's Magazine. New Series. II (July to December ed.). pp. 653–654.
  3. H. M. Chichester, R. C. Cox (2007). Lukin, Lionel (1742–1834). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17170 (subscription required)
  4. Malster, Robert, ed. (2013). The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society... and the world's first sailing lifeboat. Suffolk Records Society, vol. 56. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-805-0.
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