From 1912 Ninian and Grace lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800–81), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman.
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He was educated at Glenalmond School in Perthshire and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.
There are also a number of 15th and 16th century monumental brasses and some stained glass by Ninian Comper.
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By this date he had come under the influence of Percy Dearmer: the frontispiece to the 1907 edition of the latter's The Parson's Handbook was a pen-and-ink drawing by Lucas which showed an English altar of the type promoted by Sir Ninian Comper and Dearmer.