John Ingram Lockhart (writer)
John Ingram Lockhart (1812–1889) was an English writer and translator. He is known also for his involvement in radical politics. Life He was son of James Lockhart, born in Hawkshead, at that time in Lancashire. Brought up in Haarlem, he encouraged his school friend Nicolaas Beets to translate Lord Byron. They also read Walter Scott and Laurence Sterne together. Lockhart in 1877 published a translation of a tale from Beets's 1839 work Camera Obscura, as "The Leyden Eel-bobber". A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, as his father was, in 1838 Lockhart was listed at the same address, Lanhams in Berkshire. In 1839 he contested as a radical candidate, nominated by John Gibbs. Charles John Baillie Hamilton was elected, Lockhart coming second ahead of George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent. In 1846, when Donald Maclean who was a sitting MP for Oxford suffered bankruptcy, he put himself forward as a replacement, on a policy platform of six points: (a) abolition of church rates, (b) change in the Poor Laws, (c) abolition of primogeniture, (d) dissolution of the church courts, (e) extension of suffrage, and (f) full civil and religious liberty. He signed from Pomona Place, Fulham. His chances as a prospective