Edward Hawke Locker (9 October 1777, in

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, Kent – 16 October 1849, in

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, Buckinghamshire) was an English

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(producing works now in the V&A and

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) and administrator of the

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Life

He was the fourth (of five) surviving child and youngest son of the naval captain

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, and was named after his father's patron Admiral

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's civil secretary during his East Indies, North Sea and Mediterranean commands from 1804 to 1814. He was in England in July 1802, when he accompanied the French balloonist

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on his second English ascent during the

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. He also spent time in Spain in 1813 during the

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alongside Lord John Russell, bringing despatches to

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, as well as visiting

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in May 1814 during his

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exile. He was married in 1815 to Eleanor Mary Elizabeth Boucher, whose father the Revd

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had once been a friend of

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. Their children included the poet

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(1821–1895) and the novelist-journalist

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(1828–1893), later the editor of ''

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''. The couple lived at

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(1815–19) then at

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(1819 onwards). He was appointed secretary (1819) and then civil commissioner (1824) to the

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, which he worked to improve by adding new roads by

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in the Northumbrian coal mines it owned and in 1824 carrying forward his father's plans for a Naval Gallery in the Hospital's Painted Hall, with a gift of 31 paintings from

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(the nucleus of the later

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). He joined Lord John Russell again as one of the founder members of the '' Athenaeum Club''. However a mental breakdown in 1844 forced him to retire from running the hospital, and he retired to Iver, where he died five years later.

Works

*''Views of Spain'', 1824, with illustrations after his own watercolours

References

Sources

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