Editing Lucas Barrett (section)

== Early life and education ==
Barrett was born in London on November 14, 1837, the firstborn son of an unidentified mother and George Barrett, an iron founder who designed iron work for the [[London King's Cross railway station|London Kings Cross Railway Station]].<ref name=":2" /> He completed his preliminary education in [[Royston, Hertfordshire]].<ref name=":2" />

On March 8, 1859, Alice Maria Barrett married Lucas Barrett at [[Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge]].<ref name=":2" /> Sources do not indicate Alice Maria Barrett's career nor the story of their meeting. Alice Maria Barrett's parents were Maria Reed and Robert Barrett.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Maria Barrett 1839-1902 - Ancestry® |url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/alice-maria-barrett-24-1sv0n9x |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=www.ancestry.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The marriage was recorded in the Cambridge section of the ''Bury and Norwich Post'' on March 15, 1859.<ref name=":2" />

Barrett was educated{{When|date=October 2022}} at [[University College School]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=BHALAI |first=Suresh |date=2020-08-26 |title=160 Years: Unearthing Jamaica's Mineral Wealth- Our Story |url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/567a8df28c06434cadefd1cbecedd029 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=ArcGIS StoryMaps |language=en}}</ref>

In 1853, he went to Ebersdorf, near [[Neundorf bei Lobenstein|Lobenstein]], Vogtland, Germany to study [[botany]] and [[chemistry]] for a year.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|last=Mitchell|first=Simon|title=Lucas Barrett, F.G.S., F.L.S.|url=http://www.sfmgeology.com/jamaicangeologists/barrett.html|work=The geologists who studied Jamaica|publisher=University of the West Indies|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref>