A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Locker-Lampson, Frederick

by John William Cousin

Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821-1895). -- Poet, s. of the sec. of Greenwich Hospital, held appointments in Somerset House and the Admiralty. He wrote a number of clever vers de societé, page 243which were coll. as London Lyrics (1857). He also compiled Lyra Elegantiarum, an anthology of similar verse by former authors, and Patchwork, a book of extracts, and wrote an autobiography, My Confidences (1896).