Oliver Locker-Lampson was Member of Parliament for Ramsey, Huntingdonshire and Birmingham Handsworth from 1910 to 1945 as a Conservative.
22 Facts About Oliver Locker-Lampson
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was the brother of Godfrey Locker-Lampson MP and cousin of the diplomat Miles Lampson.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was the younger son of the poet Frederick Locker, and his second wife, Hannah Jane Lampson, daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson Bt.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was educated at Cheam School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained an Honours Tripos Degree in History and Modern Languages.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as the member for the Ramsey Division in Huntingdonshire, defeating the Liberal incumbent.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson stood as a Conservative Unionist on a Tariff Reform ticket.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was re-elected in the December 1910 general election.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain from 1919 to 1921, and accompanied Chamberlain to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson held Birmingham Handsworth from 1922 until the 1945 general election, when he was de-selected by the constituency party.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was appointed by the Conservative and Unionist Party to raise money for the Unionist Working Men's Candidates Fund.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson was involved in a secret plan by Arthur Steel-Maitland and Conservative Central Office to gain control of the Daily Express, but was outmanoeuvred by the future Lord Beaverbrook.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson opposed Irish Home Rule, and raised funds for Edward Carson's Pro-Unionist Ulster Volunteer Force.
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In December 1914 Oliver Locker-Lampson received a commission in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson became somewhat entangled in Russian politics at this time.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson said later that he had been asked to participate in the 1916 assassination of Rasputin, and that he had a secret plan to get Tsar Nicholas II out of Russia after his abdication in March 1917.
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Partly because of his experiences in Russia, Oliver Locker-Lampson became fiercely anti-Communist and suspicious of covert Bolshevik influence in Britain's economy, society and politics.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler in the Daily Mirror, touting the future leader of Nazi Germany as "a legendary hero" and "the most masterly expounder and contriver in the length and breadth of the Reich".
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From 1933 onwards, Oliver Locker-Lampson redirected his political ire against fascism both in Britain and in continental Europe.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson later worked to help other high-profile victims of fascism, including Haile Selassie and Sigmund Freud, as well as numerous ordinary Jewish people, whom he personally sponsored in order they might escape Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson retired from politics at the 1945 General Election.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson married his second wife, Barbara Goodall, in 1935.
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Oliver Locker-Lampson is buried in Worth churchyard near Crawley, Sussex.