Description | 1.) Lt. Colonel George Lucas, of Dalzell's Regiment of Foot in the British Army, owned three sugar plantations on Antigua. Col. and Mrs. Lucas sent all their children to London for schooling. Colonel Lucas was left a plot of land in South Carolina, and he purchased two more, moving his family his wife and daughters there when war between Spain and England seemed imminent, feeling that they would be safer there than on Antigua. In 1739, Col. Lucas had to return to his post in Antigua to deal with the political conflict between England and Spain. He was appointed lieutenant governor of the island. He left Eliza, his sixteen-year-old daughter, and oldest child, in charge of the three South Carolina plantations, which she successfully managed, even though her father mortgaged two of the properties to meet his expenses. Her brothers remained in London. Her mother and younger sister Polly, who had not started her formal education, lived with her. In the end, the family sold their South Carolina holdings and returned to Antigua, but Eliza remained behind and married the widowed Charles Pinckney. Eliza Lucas Pinckney 2.) George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. George Lucas in Wikipedia |