LOCHRANE, Osborne Augustus. b. Middleton, Armagh, Ireland 22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug. 1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871, resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of his speeches and orations were published. d. Atlanta, Georgia 17 June 1887.
LOCK, George. b. Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1 Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856, educational works and books for children; purchased S. O. Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon & Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about 1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into a limited liability co. April 1893. d. 7 Warltersville road, Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891 pp. 836–7; Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p. 224.
LOCKE, John (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey, surveyor). b. London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833, bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871; one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June 1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark 31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. d. 63 Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. xxx 479 (1857), portrait, lxxvi 157 (1880), portrait.
LOCKE, Joseph (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager). b. Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14 Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction 1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester 1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852 for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour; originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July 1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue of him by Marochetti. d. Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke (1862), portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx 141–8 (1861).
LOCKER, Arthur (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed. 1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village surgeon 1874. d. 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 791, portrait.
LOCKHART, Allan Eliott (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P. Selkirkshire, d. 1832). b. 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. d. Borthwickbrae, Hawick 15 March 1878.
LOCKHART, Archibald Inglis. b. 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec. 1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep. 1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col. 26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.
LOCKHART, John Gibson (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842, minister of Cambusnethan). b. in the manse of Cambusnethan 14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9; Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817, D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April 1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place, Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist. 3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald 1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888; History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled 1839. d. Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. bur. next Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. Law Review, xxi 354–6 (1855); Quarterly Review, Oct. 1864 pp. 439–82; J. G. Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads (1856) memoir 7 leaves, portrait; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed. (1876) 344–52; Bookseller, Aug. 1860 pp. 505–8; National Review, iii 745–62 (1884); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 7–13, portrait; I.L.N. xxv 559, 564 (1854), portrait.
LOCKHART, Laurence (brother of the preceding). b. 1796; presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857; author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845; Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. d. 1876. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, vol. 2 part 1 p. 221 (1868).
LOCKHART, Laurence William Maxwell (2 son of the preceding). b. 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb. 1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain 19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war 1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col. 8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869; Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. d. Mentone, France 23 March 1882. Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp. 675–80.