Charles Robert Locke

• Born                    August 1859 at Greengate, Salford
• Married                1885 to Martha Yates at Salford Registry Office. She died Stockport 1921 aged 57
• Bankruptcy          Edinburgh Gazette 3 July 1914 page 762- bankruptcy notice
• Died                    9 July 1923, Heaton Norris, Stockport aged 63
• Burial                  Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove

Son of Charles Locke, a well-known arbitrator, of Manchester, Charles Robert Locke was born at Salford, in August, 1859. Educated at Middleton Grammar School, he commenced architectural practice  in 1888 at Stockport, 1888. During the 1890s he  designed and superintended the erection of numerous hotels, offices, residences, bakeries, schools, etc., and in 1900 had in hand plans for alterations and additions to Hendon Hall, Middlesex, formerly the home of Garrick, the actor. He was one of the original members of the Stockport Literary Club; devoted much of his leisure to painting and has exhibited work in oils, water colour and black and white at the Royal Institution, Manchester, Hamer's Black and White Exhibitions, and elsewhere. Mr. Locke for some time studied with . J. H. E. Partington and acted as Secretary to the Partington Testimonial Fund.

Address
1895        Charles Robert Locke AMSA St Peter=s Square Stockport (Slaters  MSA list)
1901        Stockport (Census)
1902        Charles Robert Locke FMSA architect  4, St Peter=s Square Stockport (Kelly Cheshire)
1909        Charles Robert Locke FMSA St Peter=s Square Stockport (Slaters  MSA list)

Residence
1902        Greylands Mile End Lane Stockport (Kelly)
        69 Mile End Lane, Stockport
1914        536 Hempshaw Lane, Stockport, Cheshire
1923        Charles Robert Locke, 3 Church Road, Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire

Reference     Pike Contemporary Biography Page 214
Reference    RIBA Biography File