Edwin Hubert Burton

“ His death was regarded as a public loss by Catholics both in England and Ireland, who realized that he had breathed a new spirit of independence into Catholic journalism and set an example of high principle in political life. "As a father, a husband, a journalist and member of Parliament he had a high ideal of duty—an ideal such as rarely, if ever enters into the minds of ordinary men" (Life, II, 468) . ”

“ Returned to Parliament in 1852 as one of the members for Meath, he quickly won for himself a position in the House of Commons, and was recognized as one of the leading Catholic politicians. Questioning the sincerity of some of the Irish Nationalist members ,he did not shrink from denouncing them, and before long he became involved in a conflict with the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. ”

“ Lucas, The Life of Frederick Lucas, M. P. (London, 1886) ; Anon., A Memoir of Frederick Lucas (Derby, 1857) ; Riethmüller, Frederick Lucas: A Biography (London, 1862) ; Tablet, 27 Oct., 3 Nov., 10 Nov., 1855; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. ”