FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON BIOGRAPHY

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John 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 , which 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).