Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He received his clinical training at Guy's Hospital, qualifying through the Conjoint examination in 1893 and taking the Fellowship in 1894. After holding resident posts at Guy's and at York County Hospital, he started to practise as a consultant at Derby. He was appointed surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and to the Hospital for Sick Children, and became consulting surgeon to the Cottage hospitals at Ripley and Wirksworth. He was interested from the first in the Volunteer movement, and after the foundation of the Territorial force he served as Assistant Director of Medical Services for its North-Midland division from 1909 to 1913. In the war of 1914-18 he saw active service in the Middle East, and was created CB in the military division 1916 and CMG 1918. He was Director of Medical Services with the Egyptian expeditionary force 1918-19, with the rank of Major-General AMS, and was knighted KCMG for his war service in 1919. He was also awarded the Volunteer and Territorial decorations. After his return to Derby he took a prominent part in its public affairs, and represented the borough in Parliament as a conservative from 1924 to 1929. In the British Medical Association he was a member of the council, and chairman of the Hospital committee. He retired in 1930 to Romsey, Hampshire, where he became Mayor from 1935 to 1937, and was President of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 1939 and 1943-54. He wrote accounts of the abbeys at Malmesbury and Romsey, and was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Luce married in 1897 Mary Irene, daughter of Dr John Scott of Bournemouth. They lived latterly at Chirk Lodge, Romsey, where he died on 21 February 1952 aged 84. Lady Luce survived him with one son, Air-Commodore Charles J Luce, and three daughters. Their younger son died before his father, in India. The funeral took place in Romsey Abbey. Publications: A case of sub-cortical tumour of the brain removed by operation; recovery. *Lancet* 1904, 2, 1715. *Pages from the history of the Benedictine monestary at Malmesbury*. Devizes 1930. *Pages from the history of Romsey and its abbey*. 1948.