Charles Locock

Locock became involved in politics, acting as a justice of the peace for Kent and standing as a Conservative candidate for the Isle of Wight in the 1864 election (he lost).

[3] Locock's third son Frederick Locock (1831–1910) married, apparently without the knowledge of his family, by licence at the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, North Street, Brighton, on 28 August 1867, Mary Blackshaw, who described herself as the daughter of Abraham Blackshaw, gentleman, but in reality was the illegitimate daughter of a labourer of that name.

The couple adopted a boy, Henry Frederick Leicester Locock, who was born on 30 December 1867 and who was probably their child, but who subsequently told his children that he was the son of Princess Louise.

[4] The claims had already been rejected by Elizabeth Longford, the editor of the Princess's correspondence [5] and, after examination in some detail, were again dismissed by Anthony Camp as 'fiction' in 2007,[6] but were revived without new evidence by the art historian Lucinda Hawksley in 2013.

His fifth son was eventually commissioned Colonel Herbert Locock (1837-1910) in the Royal Engineers; while in that post he co-authored the Drainage Manual.