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Authorised form of nameLocker; Edward Hawke (1777 - 1849)
Dates1777 - 1849
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEast Malling, Kent, England
Date of birth09 October 1777
Place of deathUxbridge, Middlesex
Date of death16 October 1849
ActivityEducation:
Eton
Career:
Entered Royal Navy Pay Office (1795); 2nd Secretary to the Board of Control; Civil Secretary to Admiral Sir Edward Pellew (1804) and served with him in the East Indies (1804-1809), in the North Sea (1810), and in the Mediterranean (1810-1814); made money as a prize agent; Secretary, Greenwich Hospital (1819); Civil Commissioner (1824-1844); retired on special pension; was a watercolour painter; wrote 'Memoirs of celebrated Naval Commanders' (1832)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/12/1811
RelationshipsYoungest son of Captain William Locker RN and his wife Lucy, daughter of Admiral William Parry; married (1815) Eleanor Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev Jonathan Boucher; great grandson of Edward Stillingfleet (FRS 1688)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA2834
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1811/16Locker, Edward Hawke: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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