LOCKYER, Charles (d.1752), of Ilchester, Som. and Ealing, Mdx.

Charles Lockyer belonged to a leading Ilchester dissenting family, owning property in and around the town.Basil Williams, ’Family Memoir’, 5 seq. (communicated by W. B. Williams). He was for some time in the service of the South Sea Company as chief accountant, giving evidence to the secret committee set up in the House of Commons to inquire into the South Sea bubble. Returned unopposed for his native town in 1727, after a contest in 1734, and unopposed again in 1741, he voted consistently with the Government. He stood down in favour of his younger brother Thomas in 1747, and died ‘of a paralytic disorder’,PCC 42 Bettesworth. 13 Feb. 1752.