Background
He was born in Preston, Lancashire, an only son and elder child of John Lockwood, a stockbroker, and his wife, Elizabeth Speight.
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He was born in Preston, Lancashire, an only son and elder child of John Lockwood, a stockbroker, and his wife, Elizabeth Speight.
He attended Preston Grammar School and in 1922 he was awarded a classical scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford gaining first class honours in Classics and second class honours in literae humaniores in 1926.
He was briefly a lecturer in Latin at the University of Manchester. In 1927 he joined University College, London as senior assistant lecturer in classics and then lecturer in Greek to 1940 when the classics department moved to Aberystwyth during the Second World War. He became a reader and in 1945 returned to London as professor of Latin.
In 1950 he became the Dean of London University"s Faculty of Arts and later joined a committee administering relationship with African and West Indies colleges.
He became Master of Birkbeck College in 1951, later deputy Vice-Chancellor and then Vice-Chancellor in 1955. He travelled widely forging links with colleges in the United States and former British colonies in East Africa.
In February 1965, as chairman of a government committee, he published what was known as "". The Government"s terms of reference for this were: "To review the facilities for university..education in Northern Ireland..and to make recommendations".
The committee"s remit did not include making recommendations about any sites for any new institutions.
lieutenant also recommeneded the closure of Magee College in Derry/Londonderry. The resulting protest was unprecedented: on 18 February the city of Derry virtually closed down and a motorised convoy of 1,500 vehicles drove the 90 miles to the seat of government at Stormont in Belfast to protest, but the institution was established in Coleraine as recommended in the report.
There was a strongly-held view in Derry/Londonderry, a predominantly Roman Catholic area with a much larger population, that the university should be established there and the sense of outrage was exacerbated by the fact that there had been no Roman Catholic member of the committee.