Name Wadham Locke | Role Politician | |
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Wadham Locke (1779–1835) was an English banker and politician.
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Life
Locke was born at Brownston House, the only son of Wadham Locke II and his wife Anne Sutton, daughter of James Sutton. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1804. In 1805 he purchased Rowdeford House and estate from Thomas Wyatt.
Locke was an MP for Devizes, Wiltshire in 1832; he first stood for Devizes in 1818 as a reformer, at which time the constituency had not been contested since 1765.
Family
Locke married in 1802 Anna Maria Selina Powell, sister of Alexander Powell, MP for Downton.
The Lockes had six daughters. The youngest in the family was Frances Isabella, known as the diarist Fanny Duberly, who married in 1850 Henry Duberly (1822–1891). The eldest daughter, Anna Maria Selina, married George Purefoy-Jervoise. After his death, she married in 1848 Francis Marx. The other daughters were: