On 11th July 1833 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock was born to Reverend Thomas George Mortimer Luckock and Harriet Chune at Great Barr, Staffordshire.
In 1858 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 24] graduated B.A. with a second class in the classical tripos at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He proceeded M.A. in 1862 and D.D. in 1879.
In 1860 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 26] was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Oxford.
In 1860 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 26] was placed in the first class of the theological examination (middle bachelors), and won the Carus and Scholefield prizes for proficiency in the Greek Testament and the Septuagint.
In 1861 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 27] was awarded the Crosse scholarship; in 1862 the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship.
In 1862 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 28] was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1863 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 29] was appointed Rector of Gayhurst with Stoke-Goldington, Buckinghamshire which office he held until 1865.
On 5th April 1866 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 32] and Margaret Emma Thompson at All Saints' Church, Childwall. They had eight children of which six survived him.
In 1874 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 40] was appointed honourable canon of Ely Cathedral [Map].
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In 1875 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 41] was appointed Dean of Lichfield.
In 1879 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 45] published "After Death"; an examination of the testimony of primitive times respecting the state of the faithful dead and their relation to the living.
On 24th March 1909 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock [aged 75] died. He was buried in the Cathedral Close at Lichfield Cathedral [Map].
father: Reverend Thomas George Mortimer Luckock
Grandfather: George Chune of Madeley in Shropshire
mother: Harriet Chune