Charles Lockey
Charles Lockey (20 March 1820 – 3 December 1901) was an English singer. A tenor, he is known particularly as a soloist in the first performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah. Life He was born in Thatcham in Berkshire, on 20 March 1820, son of Angel Lockey of Oxford. He was a choirboy at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1828 to 1836, and afterwards studied singing with Edward Harris at Bath; in 1842 he was a pupil of Sir George Smart. Lockey sang in the choirs of St George's Chapel, Windsor, and Eton College Chapel. In 1843 he became a vicar-choral of St Paul's Cathedral. His first public appearance in oratorio was in October 1842, when he sang in Rossini's Stabat Mater for the Melophonic Society. In 1848 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He performed at the Concerts of Antient Music in 1846; he also sang at concerts of the Three Choirs Festival and the Sacred Harmonic Society. In 1846 Lockey was engaged for the Birmingham Festival: in the first performance, on 26 August, of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah he sang "Then shall the righteous". Mendelssohn, on hearing him rehearse the song, asked him also to sing "If with