Sir Henry Lucy was a political journalist who wrote for numerous magazines and provided the running commentary on the proceedings of the House of Commons from the mid to late 1800s in the "Gentlemans Magazine". He became a long time friend of the well-known Cardiac Specialist, Sir Sydney Russell-Wells M.D. He worked and lived in London and had a second home on the river Ant, Norfolk. He was introduced to the Broads on his honeymoon and eventually lived there from 1900 onwards.