Locker-Lampson
FREDERICK, served some years as précis-writer in the an English versifier; born in 1821. He Admiralty office, and made his name widely known as a writer of unusually bright and clever society verses by his "London Lyrics" (1857). Later books are "Lyra Elegantiarum" (18 "Patch-work" (1879). In 1850 he mar- ( 1867) and ried a daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin, who died in 1872; and in 1874 the daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, when Locker added the name of Lampson to his own.
Eleanor, his daughter by the first marriage, in 1878 married Lionel Tennyson. He died May 30, 1895. a LOCKHART, Scotch biographer and editor; born in LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, a JOHN GIBSON, Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 14, 1794. He was educated at Glasgow University; gained an exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford; studied for the Scottish bar, but never practiced; and began his literary career in 1817 as a contributor to the newly-established married the daughter of Sir Walter editor of the "Quarterly Review," a poeditor of the "Quarterly Review," a po- As the author of the life of Sir Walter Scott he will be remembered. He died