Background
John Ingram Lockhart, of Shorfield House, near Rumsey, Hampshire, and Great Haseley House, Oxfordshire, was the youngest son of three children of James Lockhart of Melchett Park, Wiltshire, and London, (a partner in Lockhart, Wallace, and Company, bankers, Pall Mall) – himself a descendant of the old Scottish family of that name, and on the female side from the sister of Oliver Cromwell (Mission Gray, a member of the Society of Friends).
Career
He was Recorder of Romsey until 1834, and was Recorder of Oxford from March 1834 until his death the following year. John"s mother was Mary Harriot Lockhart. John was baptised on 3 October 1765 at Street Dunstan-in-the-East, London. at law 14 June 1790, and went the Oxford circuit, of which he became a distinguished member having in his possession a great retentiveness of memory.
Previously, in 1827, he purchased 210 acres in North-Marston, Buckingham belonging to yeoman William Flower, previously the property of Charles and Richard Watkins, of Daventry, Northampton (who held that estate in 1775).
He unsuccessfully contested Oxford 1802, 1806, 1818, and 1830, but represented it 1807-1818, and 1820-1830. He was Recorder of Romsey until October 1834, appointed Deputy Recorder of Oxford to Sir William Elias Taunton (1773–1835) in 1830, and succeeded that distinguished Judge as Recorder of Oxford March 1835, but died at Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, England on 13 August following, aged 70.
Membership
4th United Kingdom Parliament. 5th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament.
8th United Kingdom Parliament]
John Ingram Lockhart sat as a Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1807 until 1818, and again from 1820 until 1830.