Frederick Hockley (1809 – 10 November 1885) was a British occultist and scryer who was a London-based Freemason and a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

[3] He established the spiritualist Croydon Circle in 1853, in which he claimed to be in communication with a group of spirits controlled by the Crowned Angel of the Seventh Sphere.

This predated the first spiritualist organization in London, known as the Charing Cross Spirit Circle formed in January, 1857.

It is also alleged that the original cipher manuscript on which the Golden Dawn was formed may well have been written by Hockley.

Hockley was a close friend of Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie and other British Rosicrucians and occultists of his period.