Born in Dublin on the 1st of September 1819, the son of Purefoy Lockwood, one-time Lieutenant in the 30th Foot.
Purefoy Lockwood [father]
His father, born c. December 1792, was himself the son of a vicar in Co. Tipperary, Ireland, and was formerly in the Tipperary Militia, becoming an Ensign in the 30th Foot in April of 1811 and Lieutenant in April of 1813.
He served in the Peninsula during the campaigns of 1811-13, including the siege and capture of Badajoz.
Here it is said that he was the first man in the breach, but be that so or not, he had a keen eye for chivalry and a pretty face.
The family story goes that a distressed nun implored him to take her to a place of safety.
Lockwood concerned himself at once with her welfare, so successfully that he not only saved her from immediate danger, but restored her to her parents on a mule.
A bugle call is said to be answerable for Lockwood not receiving a big reward which was his, but he had no time to wait for it.
He was also at the battle of Salamanca, the action of Villa Muriel and during the campaign of 1814 in Holland including Fort Frederick Henry.
He was severely wounded at Quatre Bras by a musket ball which passed through the frontal bone and lodged in the brain, to extract which the operation of a trepan had to be resorted to.
Once again a nun crossed Lockwoods's path, only this time to save, not to be saved, and nursed him back to life. His apparently lifeless body was being borne towards the burial trenches, his life and military career would have ended there and then had she not intervened.
At this time he was serving in the Grenadier Company.
A Journal was kept by one of the officers of the 30th at the time, Ensign McReady, — "Lockwood, of ours, has gone home with a silver plate in his skull on which was engraved, "Bomb-proof." (This was held in place by a black silk band.)
Placed on half-pay in August of 1816 as being "unfit for further service in consequence of losing nearly the entire front of his forehead." He then received a pension of £140 per annum, and in December of 1821 a further pension.
In September of 1826 he was appointed a Captain of Invalids at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on a salary of £120 per annum and filled this position for 44 years.
His father had married twice, his first wife being ------ Duggan, whom he had married at Dublin on the 16th of March 1816.
A son and two daughters were born of this marriage.
His second wife was Elizabeth Jane, relict of Captain F. Stewart, of No. 8 Plessington Street, Dublin, the ceremony taking place at St Mary's Church, Dublin, on the 13th of January 1857. The report added:
"This gallant officer is the father of Surgeon Lockwood of the 8th Hussars, and served in the 30th Regiment in the Peninsula during 1811-12 and 1813 and also in Holland in 1814, and at Quatre Bras, where he was wounded.'
From the United Services Gazette, 11th of June 1859:
"Captain Purefoy Lockwood has died at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, at the age of 67 years.On Wednesday of last week the remains of this gallant officer were carried to his tomb in Mount Jerome Cemetery with more than ordinary military pomp and ceremony — the whole regiment of the Royal Scots Greys, officers and men, attending the body to the grave.
This was unusual in that a cavalry officer's funeral was given to an infantry officer, but this arose from the desire of Colonel Griffith, C.B. to pay this mark of respect to the father of one of his own officers — Dr. Lockwood, the son of the deceased, being the Surgeon of the Scots Greys."
A photograph showing Purefoy Lockwood's Peninsula and Waterloo medals, a silver skull plate and a miniature painting of him in uniform formed part of an "exhibit" at the Orders and Medals Research Society Convention in 1994.
Further detailed medal information archived.
Assistant-Surgeon (Staff): 27th of August 1841.
Assistant-Surgeon in the 30th Foot: 17th of September 1841.
Surgeon. (Staff) (Second Class): 21st of September 1852.
Surgeon in the 7th Foot: 6th of January 1854.
Surgeon in the 8th Hussars: 11th of May 1855.
Surgeon in the 2nd Dragoons: 31st of August 1858.
Surgeon-Major in the 2nd Dragoons: 17th of September 1861.
On to half-pay: 4th of April 1865.
Surgeon Lockwood served the Eastern campaign of 1854-55 with the 7th Fusiliers, including the affairs of the Bulganack and McKenzie's Farm, the battle of the Alma, capture of Balaclava, battle of Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastopol.
Served with the 8th Hussars at the battle of the Tchernya and the fall of Sebastopol. (Medal with three clasps and Knight of the Legion of Honour.)
Served also with the 8th Hussars during the campaign of 1858-59 in Central India. (Medal and Clasp.)
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, the Turkish Medal, and the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
He was also a Chevalier (Knight) of theLegion of Honour (5th Class).Lummis and Wynn also credit him with the clasp for Balaclava, but this is not so.
He had lived at 7, Beauchamp Walk, Leamington.
Died at Darlington on the 20th of July 1868, aged 48 years.
In 1867 a Lunatic Pay Warrant [PB: Explain?] was issued to a Mrs. Mary Eliza Lockwood (almost certainly his wife).
Any arrears of pension were paid over to a Dr. D. Mackintosh, of Dimsdale Park in Darlington. According to the local Directory of the time, this was a private mental home.
From this it would appear that he died in a mental asylum.
The Army and Navy Gazette, in recording his death, stated that he "died after a long illness".
He was buried in the West Cemetery, Darlington, on the 24th of July 1868 in Grave No. C-32-85. There is only the one interment in the grave-space and no headstone was erected.