Born on September 9th, 1857, the son of William Henry Lukis, of Southampton. Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he won the Open Entrance Scholarship in Science in October, 1875, and gained the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship in 1878. He entered the Bengal Army as Surgeon on March 31st, 1880, being promoted Surgeon Major on March 31st, 1892, and Lieutenant-Colonel on March 31st, 1900. He never held the rank of Colonel, being selected for promotion to Surgeon General and appointment as Director-General while still a Lieutenant-Colonel on January 1st, 1910. He was raised to the rank of Lieutenant-General on September 22nd, 1916, being the only Director-General of the Indian Medical Service on whom this rank had been conferred. He saw service with the field forces in Waziristan in 1881 and in the Zhob Valley in 1885. He was then transferred to the civil branch and held appointments in the United Provinces, becoming Civil Surgeon of Simla in 1899 and Hon Surgeon to the Viceroy in 1905. He was appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the Calcutta Medical College, and in 1905 Professor of Medicine and Principal of the College, as well as first Physician of the Hospital attached to the College. Early in 1910 he was selected for the post of Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, and held it by successive extensions until his death in 1917, probably a longer period than any of his predecessors. He was gazetted Hon Surgeon to the King in 1913, and rose to a high position in Freemasonry in India, having been admitted a member of the Rahere Lodge at St Bartholomew's Hospital in June, 1903. Lukis took the MD of the University of London in Pathology and the Fellowship as vacation exercises during leave from India. From the beginning of his time in India he gave himself up to the clinical side of his duties with all the remarkable ability and energy with which he was endowed, and continued to keep himself abreast of the progress of medicine and surgery. When he was advanced to the highest administrative medical post in India he was able to show that he had not failed fully to appreciate the importance which laboratory and field research had attained. He used the influence his position gave him to promote the formation of the Indian Research Fund Association, which has already done a great deal for research in India. The war of 1914-1918 enormously increased the ordinary problems of efficient administration in India and threw much additional work upon the Director-General, which he still further increased by accepting the post of Chairman of the Executive Committee of the St John Ambulance Association in India. He was not involved in the early breakdown of the medical arrangements for the campaign in Mesopotamia, since the responsibility rested with the Government who had placed it upon an officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps and not of the Indian Medical Service. Lukis, however, acted for a few months in this position in 1916 in the interval between the resignation of one Director and the arrival of his successor. The Report of the Commission bears testimony to the energy and vigour with which during this time many defects and shortcomings were remedied. Sir Pardey Lukis died in India on October 22nd, 1917, owing to the recurrence of a serious malady from which he had suffered two years previously. He was survived by his widow, a daughter of Colonel John Stewart, RA, and by a son and three daughters. His eldest son, T S Lukis, who showed every promise of following his father's successful medical career, accepted a commission in the London Regiment in August, 1914, and was killed in March, 1915. Publications:- *Tropical Hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians* (with MAJOR R J BLACKHAM), 8vo, illustrated, 2nd ed, Calcutta, 1914; 3rd ed, 1915. Edited Ghosh's *Materia Medica*; Waring's *Bazaar Medicines of India*, 6th ed, 1901; and was the first editor of the *Indian Jour of Med Research*.