John Ingram Lockhart

Who is John Ingram Lockhart?

John Ingram Lockhart was a British politician.

John Ingram Lockhart sat as a Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1807 until 1818, and again from 1820 until 1830. He was Recorder of Romsey until 1834, and was Recorder of Oxford from March 1834 until his death the following year.

John Ingram Lockhart, of Shorfield House, near Rumsey, Hampshire, and Great Haseley House, Oxfordshire, was the youngest son of three children of James Lockhart of Melchett Park, Wiltshire, and London, – himself a descendant of the old Scottish family of that name, and on the female side from the sister of Oliver Cromwell. John's mother was Mary Harriot Lockhart.

John was baptised on 3 October 1765 at St Dunstan-in-the-East, London. His eldest brother was James Lockhart an Etonian and Astronomer.