Sir Frank Lockwood (1846-1897) was a famous English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He was educated at a private school, at Manchester Grammar School, and Caius College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1872. In 1882 he was made a queen's counsel, in 1884 he was made recorder of Sheffield, and in 1894 he became solicitor-general in Lord Rosebery's ministry, and was knighted, having first entered parliament as Liberal member for York in 1885, after two unsuccessful attempts, the one at King's Lynn in 1880, the other at York in 1883. He was solicitor-general for less than a year. In 1896 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Mr. Montague Crackanthorpe and Sir Frank Lockwood went to the United States to attend, as specially invited representatives of the English bar, the nineteenth meeting of the American Bar Association. On this trip Sir Frank Lockwood sustained the reputation which he enjoyed in England as a humourous afterdinner speaker, and helped to strengthen...

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