John Lockman (priest)

John Lockman was born 18 April 1722.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FAlhAAAAcAAJ&q=lockman+gumley&pg=PA22|title=The Chronological Diary for the Year 1722. Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions and Events, Etc|date=1722|publisher=H. Meere|pages=22|language=en}}

Lockman's father was (Christopher){{Cite web|title=Yale University archives|url=https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/walpoleimages/hwcorrespondence/22/158.pdf}} Lockman, esq. of London, originally from Hanover, and had worked for King George II as dresser and Page of the Backstairs.{{Cite web|date=1960|title=REPORT OF THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF ST GEORGE'S AND THE DESCENDANTS OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER; VOLUME IV, No I, 1960|url=https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FR-Vol-3_1960.pdf}} His mother was Susanna Gumley, daughter of John Gumley and sister of Lady Bath (Anna Maria Pulteney (née Gumley)).{{Cite web|title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum {{!}} Anna Maria Pulteney, Lady Bath|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG177832|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.britishmuseum.org}} His mother Susanna died 18 April 1722 from childbirth complications presumably after delivering John.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lastchancetoread.com/docs/1722-04-28-the-weekly-journal-or-british-gazetteer.aspx|title=28/04/1722 The Weekly Journal : Or British Gazetteer | Rare Newspaper on Last Chance To Read|website=www.lastchancetoread.com}}

Lockman married Elizabeth Seare (daughter of Michael Seare, esq. as denoted on memorial, and daughter of Mary (Peachey));{{Cite web|title=Parishes: Marsworth {{!}} British History Online|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp391-397|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Elizabeth was granddaughter of Sir John Peachey, 2nd Baronet,{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zMwAAAAYAAJ&q=michael+seare+tring+grove&pg=RA1-PA288|title=Stockdale's Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland: Containing an Account of All the Peers of the United Kingdom|first=Barak|last=Longmate|date=May 24, 1810|publisher=J. Stockdale|via=Google Books}} they had two daughters:

• Anna Maria Lockman (1764–1825),{{Cite book|author=Great Britain House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BdDAAAAcAAJ&q=anna+maria%3B+john+lockman+windsor&pg=PA270|title=Journals of the House of Commons|date=1803|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|pages=270|language=en}} who married Edward Barker, esq. from West Tarring, Sussex on 19 November 1778.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0tGAAAAcAAJ&q=rev+john+Lockman+windsor+james+lind&pg=PA615|title=The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex: Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement|date=1778|publisher=Baldwin, Cradock & Joy|pages=615|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Society|first=Harleian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ikEAAAAIAAJ&q=edward+barker%2C+esq+lockman+1778&pg=PA293|title=The Publications of the Harleian Society: Registers|date=1886|publisher=The Society|pages=293|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB0046%20751}}
• Caroline Lockman (1766–1820 or 1828){{Cite web|title=College of St George, ANNUAL REVIEW 2006/07, pg 439|url=https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/FR-Vol-8_2006-2007.pdf}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3tMAQAAIAAJ&q=Elizabeth+seare+lockman&pg=PA896|title=The English Reports: Rolls Court (1829-1865)|date=1904|publisher=W. Green|pages=896|language=en}}

He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated BA in 1748, and MA and Doctor in Divinity in 1769.The Gentleman's Magazine. Volume 102. 1807. p.1239 Lockman was recognized as a natural philosopher,{{Cite web|title=Lockman, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society|url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=EC/1778/16&AddBasket=EC/1778/16|access-date=2021-05-15|website=catalogues.royalsociety.org}} and had interested in painted glass. Lockman once owned "The statutes and ordinances of the most noble Order of Saint George named “ye Garter’ [manuscript on vellum]" from year 1571 by Order of the Garter.{{Cite book|last=Garter|first=Order|url=https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/content/statutes-and-ordinances-most-noble-order-saint-george-named-%E2%80%9Cye-garter%E2%80%99-manuscript-vellum|title=The statutes and ordinances of the most noble Order of Saint George named "ye Garter' [manuscript on vellum]|date=1571}}

File:James_Lind_(1736).jpg, Dr James Lind, Rev. Dr. John Lockman, Caroline Herschel,{{Cite arXiv|author1=Roberta J. M. Olson |author2=Jay M. Pasachoff|title=The Comets of Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), Sleuth of the Skies at Slough; Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, INSAP7, Bath, 2010 (www.insap.org) publication: Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 16, nos. 1 and 2, 2012;|year=2012|class=physics.hist-ph|eprint=1212.0809}} Thomas Sandby looking out towards the comet on 18 Aug 1783{{Cite web|title=Lind, James (1736–1812) – Silhouette of George III|url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/1047678-am|access-date=2021-05-12|website=www.rct.uk|language=en}} (background not shown), one pointing. 1783 Watercolour, over graphite{{Cite web|url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/914577/the-meteor-of-1783-seen-from-the-east-end-of-the-north-terrace|title=Paul Sandby (1731–1809) – The meteor of 1783 seen from the east end of the North Terrace|website=www.rct.uk}}]]

He was appointed:

• Rector of Dunstable 1753
• Rector of Hartley Westpall 1769
• Rector of Drayton Beauchamp 1773
• Fellow Royal Society of London 1778
• Rector of West Ilsley 1786
• Clerk of the Closet to George, Prince of Waleshttps://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131052104049d.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Cite web|title=Letter from Reverend John Lockman to Lord Southampton on his dismissal from George, Prince of Wales's Household, and praising the Prince's principles|url=https://gpp.rct.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=GIV_CALENDAR/1/1786/10|access-date=2021-05-17|website=gpp.rct.uk}}
• Master of the Hospital of St Cross Winchester{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20210516181817/http://www.povertystudies.org/TeachingPages/EDS_PDFs4WEB/ALMSHOUSE_1868_MemorialOfStCrossAlmshouse-UK.pdf Article title]}} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

He was appointed to the second stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1758,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfMRAAAAYAAJ&dq=john+lockman+st+george+chapel&pg=PA46|title=The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ...|date=1758|publisher=Published ... according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton|pages=46|language=en}} and held the stall until 1807. in 1774,{{Cite journal|last=Erffa|first=Helmut Von|date=1969|title=Benjamin West at the Height of His Career|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593851|journal=American Art Journal|volume=1|issue=1|pages=19–33|doi=10.2307/1593851|jstor=1593851|url-access=subscription}} Lockman worked with King George III to refurbish parts of the Chapel's interior with plans to finance the project through donations from knights of the Order of the Garter,Jerry D. Meyer, The American Art Journal, vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1979), pp. 53–65 (13 pages), doi.org/10.2307/1594166 Lockman was paid 500 guinea.{{Cite web|title=A Guide to St George's Chapel c. 1811 – The Royal Windsor Web Site|url=http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/winguide06a.html|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.thamesweb.co.uk}} In addition to overseeing the project, a noteworthy contribution by Lockman included collecting all of the fifteenth century glass and consolidating the pieces into the single west window, which inspired a wave of artistic design for new windows.{{Cite journal|last=Von Erffa|first=H|date=1969|title=Benjamin West at the Height of His Career|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593851|journal=American Art Journal|volume=1|issue=1|pages=22|doi=10.2307/1593851|jstor=1593851|issn=0002-7359|url-access=subscription}}

Fanny Burney mentioned Lockman in her journal, "...and though he told us nothing either new or striking, he at least took care to give no disappointment after his first opening, by preaching in a manner that never drew our attention." Lockman also appears in the diary of Queen Charlotte{{cite book|last=Kassler|first= Michael|title= The Diary of Queen Charlotte, 1789 and 1794: Memoirs of the Court of George}}

Lockman was a member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4OxbAAAAQAAJ&q=reverend+john+lockman+d.d.+FRS&pg=PA79|title=A Sermon Preached Before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: At Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday February 18, 1785. By the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Exeter|first=John|last=Ross|date=May 24, 1785|publisher=T. Harrison and S. Brooke|via=Google Books}} and the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8b3rykynrkC&q=john+lockman+windsor+charlotte&pg=PA17|title=A List of the Members of the Corporation of the Amicable Society ... contributors on their own lives, etc|first=Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance|last=Office|date=May 24, 1783|via=Google Books}}

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Rev. Dr. John Lockman died 24 December 1807.{{Cite web|url=https://cccbr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cb34.pdf|title=Church Bells and Illustrated Church News}} A memorial indicates he was "in his 87th year", however, this may conflict with his birthyear.

• 1786 – Letter from Lockman to Baron Southampton
• Obituary{{Cite web|last=Obituary|title=The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 53, pg 74|year=1808|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-sRAAAAYAAJ&q=family+rev+john+Lockman+windsor&pg=PA74}}

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