Background
The elder son of the poet Frederick Locker and his second wife Hannah Jane Lampson, daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, he was educated at Cheam School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
The elder son of the poet Frederick Locker and his second wife Hannah Jane Lampson, daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, he was educated at Cheam School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He then studied law at Lincoln"s Inn and was called to the Bar in 1908, though never practised.
Locker-Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1898, was appointed Third Secretary in December 1900, and was posted at The Hague and Street St. Petersburg until he left the Diplomatic service in 1903. He served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry from 1914 to 1916 and was briefly Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Henry Hughes Wilson of IV Corps on the Western Front, during which time he was said to have used his diplomatic skills to effect a rapprochement between Wilson and Lloyd George. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, Sir George Cave, in 1916-1917, and to the Assistant Foreign Secretary, Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil in 1918.
He was a Charity Commissioner in 1922-1923 and served in government as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs from March 1923 to January 1924, and again from November 1924 to December 1925, when he represented the Office of Works in the House of Commons.
During this latter period his Parliamentary Private Secretary was Anthony Eden at the Home Office and then briefly at the Foreign Office. He was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from December 1925 to June 1929.
29th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament.
32nd United Kingdom Parliament.
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 34th United Kingdom Parliament.
35th United Kingdom Parliament. 36th United Kingdom Parliament]
He unsuccessfully contested Chesterfield at the 1906 general election, and served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Salisbury from 1910 to 1918, then Wood Green from 1918 to 1935.
He was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations at Geneva in 1928 and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in the same year.