LOCKER, EDWARD HAWKE
Crest.—A buck's head erased ppr. Locker.
Motto.—Fear God and fear not.
Initials.—E. H. L. (Edward Hawke Locker).
[Descrizione delle Pitture che trovansi in alcune città dello Stato Ligure. Genova, 1780.]
Edward Hawke Locker (born 9th October 1777, died 16th October 1849) was the son of William Locker, Captain R.N. He was educated at Eton, and occupied several positions of trust, until in 1819 he was made Secretary to Greenwich Hospital. Mr. Locker was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an artist and an author, and has left a few books, chiefly biographical or historical. At Greenwich he inaugurated the scheme of making a collection of naval pictures, which has proved of the greatest value. His son Frederick, who assumed the additional surname of Lampson in 1885, afterwards became a well-known book collector.
