Oliver Locker-Lampson
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Commander Oliver Stillingworth Locker-Lampson CMG, DSO, (1880-1954) was a British soldier and right-wing Conservative Party politician.
He was elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament for Ramsey in Huntingdonshire. When that seat was abolished at the 1918 general election, he was returned for the newly re-established Huntingdonshire seat, transferring in 1922 to Birmingham Handsworth, which he held until he stepped down from Parliament at the 1945 general election.
The son of the poet Frederick Locker and Jane Lampson (daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson), he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His older brother Godfrey was also a Tory MP. Oliver was a barrister and journalist before his election to Parliament.
During World War I he commanded Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars in Belgium, France, Rumania and Russia.
In 1931 he founded the blue-shirted Sentinels of Empire "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds!" whose motto was "Fear God! Fear Naught!".
[edit] References
- 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.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Alexander Boulton |
Member of Parliament for Ramsey 1910–1918 |
Succeeded by constituency abolished |
| Preceded by constituency re-established |
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire 1918–1922 |
Succeeded by Charles Kenneth Murchison |
| Preceded by Ernest Meysey-Thompson |
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Handsworth 1922–1945 |
Succeeded by Harold Roberts |
