Locker-Lampson

Locker-Lampson, FREDERICK, son of a naval officer, was born in 1821, served some years as précis-writer in the Admiralty office, and made his name widely known as a writer of unusually bright and clever vers de société by his London Lyries (1857), collected from the various papers in which they had appeared. Later books are Lyra Elegantiarum (1867) and Patchwork (1879). In 1850 he married a daughter of the seventh 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. In 1878 his daughter was married to Lionel Tennyson. He died 30th May 1895. See My Confidences (1896), which is an autobiography.