3-052-430 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. John Locke, Q.C., M.P., 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Reutlinger. 'The late member for Southwark, whose death has occasioned much regret, was...born in London in 1805...He was called to the Bar in 1833, at the Inner Temple, of which he afterwards became a Bencher, and went the Home Circuit. Mr. Locke was one of the common pleaders of the City of London from 1845 until June, 1857, when he became a Queen's Counsel, receiving the appointment of Recorder of Brighton four years later. In 1847 Mr. Locke married Laura Rosalie, daughter of the late Colonel Thomas Alexander Cobbe, of the East India Company's Service...At the general election of 1852 Mr. Locke came forward in the Liberal interest for the borough of Hastings, but was unsuccessful. At the dissolution of Parliament in April, 1857, he offered himself for Southwark and was returned...At the last general election the deceased member was returned at the head of the poll...Mr. Locke issued an address some time ago announcing that he did not intend to seek re-election to the next Parliament. He was the author of a Treatise on the Game Laws, and of another legal treatise'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.