Arthur Locker

Arthur Locker (2 July 1828 – 23 June 1893) was an English journalist and novelist.

Early life and education The second son of Edward Hawke Locker, he was born at Greenwich on 2 July 1828; Frederick Locker-Lampson was his brother. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 6 May 1847, and graduated with a B.A. in 1851.

Career Locker went into commerce in a Liverpool office. Attracted by the Australian Gold Rush of the time, he emigrated to Victoria, and there took up journalism and other writing. He returned to the UK in 1861, where he wrote extensively for newspapers and magazines. He was twice married, to Mary Jane Rouse and after her death to Catharine Sarah Carpenter née Clulioth.

Works Locker published fiction, mainly based on his Australian experiences:

Sweet Seventeen, 1866 On a Coral Reef, juvenile literature, 1869 Stephen Scudamore the Younger, 1871 The Village Surgeon, 1874