[citation needed] Locker-Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1898, was appointed Third Secretary in December 1900,[2] and was posted at The Hague and St Petersburg until he left the Diplomatic service in 1903.

[4] He unsuccessfully contested Chesterfield at the 1906 general election, and served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Salisbury from 1910 to 1918, then Wood Green from 1918 to 1935.

He was a Charity Commissioner in 1922-23 and served in government as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs from March 1923 to January 1924, and again from November 1924 to December 1925, when he represented the Office of Works in the House of Commons.

The Great Age from the accession of George the Third to the Reform Bill, 1832 (1918), The Country Gentleman, and Other Essays (1932), and Sun and Shadow: Collected Love Lyrics and other poems (1945).

[citation needed] He was married twice: to Sophy Felicité de Rodes (1905), who died in 1935, and to Barbara Hermione Green (1937).