Samuel Locke

Headmaster of FGS from 1800 to 1823

Biography
(Compiled by Cyril Trust)

Samuel Locke

Born 1769 died 20 December 1849

1785, Oct. 22nd	Samuel Locke articulated at Wadham College, Oxford, aged 17. See: University Matriculation rolls for 1785.
1789	B.A.
1790	Ordained: Anglican Clergy Database for Diocese of Winchester
1796	D.D.
1800	M.A.
1790-1823	Various clergy preferments in England
1798	Foster son = Rev. Samuel Charles Locke, b. 1798, of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford. Ordained 1817. Curate at Bramshott. Served in England until 1829. See: Anglican Clergy Database for Diocese of Winchester. Lived in Antwerp with his foster parents after 1829 until 1840
1800-1823	Head of Farnham School. See: (i) 'Victoria County History of Surrey’, Volume 2, page 189. H. E. Malden, 1905. (ii) Records of Farnham School, Surrey. (iii) ‘An Experimental List of Worthies, Unworthies and Villains, born in the County’ (i.e. Somerset). Compiled by Arthur L. Humphreys, London, Strangeways, 1897. Sold by Hatchards, Piccadilly.
1807	Dr Lock purchases for his nephew, Thomas Locke, his commission in the Indian Army (‘Hansard’, 11809).
1810, Nov. 8th	Married Sarah Clinch, both of Farnham, at St. Magnus Martyr, London Bridge. Reported in: ‘Monthly Magazine and British Register’, Vol. 30, Part 2, 1810, p 465
1816	Chaplain to Duke of Kent (Anglican Clergy Database)
1822, Mar. 25th	Married Abigail Ann Lopez Pereira, b. 1782, Jamaica, (who d. 1823, at Mount Pleasant Tce, Plymouth, Devon. Abigail = from Portuguese Jewish community). Married at St. George’s, Hanover Square.
May 28th, 1823	Birth of daughter, Charlotte Maria Ann Locke; chr. July 2nd, St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch.
1823 -1829	Appointed parish priest of Anglican church in Antwerp
1839	Moved to Coblenz, Germany
1840	Samuel Charles Locke disposed of Samuel’s property in Antwerp by power of attorney, issued in Coblenz
1849	Wrote his Will, while on holiday in France
1849, 20 Dec	Died

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