page_title: Thomas Lucy (died 1640)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Lucy (died 1640) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomb of Sir Thomas Lucy III and his wife, Alice Spencer, in St. Leonard's church, Charlecote, Warwickshire.
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park, Warwickshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1640.
context_section_description: In 1614, Lucy was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. He held the seat through several elections until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Warwickshire in the Short Parliament. In November 1640 he was elected MP for Warwick in the Long Parliament but died in December.
  Lucy died after falling from his horse and was buried at St Leonard's Church, Charlecote. It was said of him that "his tables were ever open to the learned and his gates never fast to the poor".
caption: Tomb of Sir Thomas Lucy and Alice, his wife, in St. Leonard's church, Charlecote.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "HITACHI HDC-1061E", "Image Make": "HITACHI", "Image Model": "HDC-1061E", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "1.22.000", "Image DateTime": "2011:05:30 13:44:40", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "270", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "38748", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5656", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/29", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:05:30 13:44:40", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:05:30 13:44:40", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "243/50", "EXIF ApertureValue": "149/50", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "31/10", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF LightSource": "Flash", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "8", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3648", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2736", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "38624", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}