Oliver Stillingworth Locker-Lampson
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Commander Oliver Stillingworth Locker-Lampson CMG & DSO, (1880-1954), British soldier and right-wing politician
Conservative Member of Parliament for the years 1910-45. He represented the following constituencies: 1910-18 Ramsey 1918-22 Huntingdonshire 1922-45 Birmingham Handsworth
Son of Frederick Locker the poet and Jane Lampson, daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson. Educated Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Lawyer then MP before First World War.
Durin World War I he commanded Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars.
In 1931 he founded the short-lived Sentinels of Empire "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds!" whose motto was "Fear God! Fear Naught!". These Blue-Shirts were a rival to Oswald Mosley's Fascists (Black Shirts).
However, Locker-Lampson was pro-Zionist and a friend of Einstein and Freud
[| Locker-Lampson’s entry in the 1938 ‘Who’s Who’ (with photo)]
The Czar’s British Squadron, Bryan Perrett and Anthony Lord, published by William Kimber, London, 1981.
