Gervase Lucas was a governor of Bombay during the British Raj

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

. He assumed the office on 5 November 1666. He died in office on 21 May 1667. He built a garrison on the island having a reinforcement of 60 men under a lieutenant, together with a supply of clothes, ammunition and stores, and a small vessel.

Lucas had his predecessor in office Humphrey Cooke

Humphrey Cooke

Humphrey Cooke, known in Portuguese chronicles as Inofre Coque, was the first English governor of the Bombay Presidency during the rule of the Honourable East India Company....

 jail for extortion while in office. After Cooke escaped and went to aid the Portugese he was charged with treason.

Sources

• John Keay
  John Keay
  John Keay is an English journalist and author specialising in writing popular histories about India and the Far East, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.-Life and career:...
  
  . The Honorable Company: A History of the English East India Company. New York: Macmillan, 1991. p. 133.