Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne

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Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne PC GCVO JP DL (17 August 1847 - 26 December 1928) was a British soldier and politician.

The eldest son of General Mark Wood, he was educated at Eton, he joined the Coldstream Guards in 1866. He retired from the Guards in 1883. He assumed the surname of Lockwood in 1876, the same year that he married Isabella, daughter of Sir John Milbanke, 8th Baronet. His only son Richard Lockwood, was killed at the Battles of the Aisne on 14 September 1914.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Epping from 1892 until 1917.

He was Provincial Grand Master of the Essex Freemasons from 1902, Vice President of the RSPCA and President of the Royal Horticultural Society.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor and a CVO in 1905, and raised to the peerage as Baron Lambourne in 1917. He was appointed a GCVO in 1927. He died without an heir to the Barony. He was Chairman of the Governors of Chigwell School from 1893 to 1922

He was Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1919 until his death.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
Member of Parliament for Epping
1892–1917
Succeeded by
Richard Beale Colvin
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Warwick
Lord Lieutenant of Essex
1919–1928
Succeeded by
Richard Beale Colvin
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Lambourne
1917–1928
Extinct