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Up for sale a RARE! "Recorder of Oxford" John Ingram Lockhart Signed Free Frank Dated 1825.
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John
Ingram Lockhart (5
September 1766 – 13 August 1835) was a British politician. At the end of his
life he was known as John Wastie. He sat as a Member until 1818, and again from 1820 until 1830. He was Recorder of
Romsey until 1834, and was Recorder of
Oxford from March 1834 until his death the following year. John
Ingram Lockhart, of Sherfield House, near Romsey, Hampshire, and Great Haseley House, Oxfordshire, was
the youngest son of three children of James Lockhart of Melchett Park,
Wiltshire, and London, a partner in Lockhart, Wallace, and Co., bankers, Pall Mall; his mother was Mary Harriot Gray, of the Society of Friends. James Lockhart was
his brother. Lockhart
was baptised on 3 October 1765 at St Dunstan-in-the-East,
London. He went to Eton College in 1779,
and then University College, Oxford under
the tutelage of Edward Hawtrey (1741–1803), where he matriculated on 5 May
1783, aged 17. He entered Lincoln's Inn 7 May 1783, studied 1786 to 1787 another
year of law at Göttingen University and
was called to the bar on
14 June 1790. He went the Oxford circuit, and was created Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
on 14 June 1820. At one point Lockhart was political agent for Henry Peters in
the Oxford seat. Later, in 1802, he stood for the seat himself; and Peters,
after some delay, declined the contest In the 1812 he beat George Eden,
the Duke of Marlborough's candidate, into third place. In 1827, Lockhart
purchased 210 acres in North-Marston, Buckingham belonging to yeoman William
Flower, previously the property of Charles and Richard Watkins, of Daventry,
Northampton (who held that estate in 1775). Lockhart unsuccessfully contested
Oxford 1802, 1806, 1818, and 1830, but represented it 1807–18, and 1820–30. He
was Recorder of Romsey until October 1834, appointed Deputy Recorder of Oxford
to Sir William Elias Taunton (1773–1835)
in 1830, and succeeded that distinguished Judge as Recorder of Oxford March
1835, but died at Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, England on 13 August following,
aged 70.
