Frank Lockwood (politician)
Sir Frank Lockwood York | |
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In office 18 December 1885 – 18 December 1897 | |
Preceded by | Frederick Milner Ralph Creyke |
Succeeded by | John Butcher Charles Beresford |
Personal details | |
Born | Doncaster, Yorkshire, England | 15 July 1846
Died | 18 December 1897 London, County of London, England | (aged 51)
Political party | Liberal |
Sir Frank Lockwood,
Life
Lockwood was born in
Lockwood was called to the bar at
Lockwood made two unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament, the one at
In May 1895 Lockwood was lead counsel for the prosecution in Regina v. Oscar Wilde. The Liberal government seemed determined to get a successful prosecution. Edward Carson, who had successfully defended the Marquess of Queensbury against Wilde's misguided criminal libel, approached Frank Lockwood and asked "Can we not let up on the fellow now?". Lockwood answered that he would like to do so, but feared that the case had become too politicised to be dropped.
In 1896 Lockwood accompanied Lord Chief Justice Russell and barrister Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe to the United States to attend the nineteenth meeting of the American Bar Association as specially invited representatives of the English bar. On the trip he sustained the reputation which he enjoyed in England as a humorous after-dinner speaker, and helped to strengthen the bond of friendship between the bench and bar of the United States and the bench and bar of England.[3]
Lockwood's uncle Henry Francis Lockwood was an architect and his father a talented draughtsman. Lockwood also had a skill at drawing, which he used to amuse himself and his friends, by making caricatures in pen and ink, and sketches of humorous incidents, real or imaginary, relating to the topic nearest at hand.[3] He illustrated C. J. Darling's Scintillae Juris in 1889 and contributed to Punch from 1893 to 1897. An exhibition of his work was held in London in March 1889. He was also author of The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick published in 1894.
Lockwood lived at Cober Hill, Cloughton, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He died in London at the age of 51.
Lockwood married Julia Rosetta Salis Schwabe, daughter of Salis and Julia Schwabe of Manchester and Glyn-y-Garth, Anglesey, on 3 September 1874. His wife was the sister of fellow MP George Salis-Schwabe and the daughter of the educationalist Julia Schwabe.[9]
Lockwood was the brother-in-law of the 21st
References
- See Augustine Birrell's biography of Lockwood and The Frank Lockwood Sketch-Book (1898).
- Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Augustine Birrell revised by H C G Matthew, OUP 2004-8
- Baird, Bob (1995) Shipwrecks of the West of Scotland. Glasgow. Nekton Books. ISBN 1-897995-02-4
Notes
- ^ "Lockwood, Frank (or Francis) (LKWT865FF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lockwood, Sir Frank". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 855. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ Craig, page 335
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"
- ^ Dark Side of the Black Museum 1835-1895 by Gordon Honeycombe
- ^ Patrick Waddington, ‘Schwabe, Julie (1818–1896)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2006 accessed 4 September 2015
- ^ Baird (1995) p. 142. Also see Journal of the Lorn Archaeological and Historical Society (2009). Frank Lockwood’s Island. http://www.lahsoc.org.uk/journals/journal_2009/7%20Frank%20Lockwoods%20Island.pdf [accessed 30 May 2014].
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