Charles Dealtry Locock

Charles Dealtry Locock (27 September 1862 – 13 May 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet.

[1] He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University and then published several works on the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

[4] Locock translated several Swedish authors, including the poets Esaias Tegnér and Gustaf Fröding and the playwright August Strindberg.

[1] C. D. Locock and his American contemporary, Charles Wharton Stork, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation.

[6] Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.