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NOTES from Rod Fripp:
Leo emigrated to South Africa from Bristol (via Oxford Uni and Greenwich) in 1899.He was the first private-practicing surveyor in South Africa including what is now the Kruger National Park. The boundaries of this park, and its border with Mozambique were first surveyed by Leopold in 1908 to 1911. His theodolite, chronometer and other survey instruments are in the possession of his grandson, Rod.
Leo and his family took regular summer holidays on the south coast near Ringstead Beach, at South Down farm (now National Trust) which his family rented from the farmer for holidays. That was where Leo met his future wife, Susan Beatrice Lock of Dorchester, the artist, because the two families shared the big farmhouse for holidays. When Rod visited South Down, about 1995, it was the same as it was when Leo photographed it in about 1898! Leo was friendly with Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, his older cousin by 9 years, who had grown up at Blandford, so they probably met on these holidays because his biography, by Cecil Roberts, says that Sir Alfred went back there for his holidays every year when a student in London and bought a home in Lulworth in 1911.Leo lived in a charming town named Louis Trichardt in the (then) Northern Transvaal. It is situated in a small mountain range where he owned a mixed dairy cattle/legumes/nuts/fruit farm known as South Downs - named after the farm at Ringsted Bay where he met Beatrice. She painted a hill known as Blauberg (Blue Mountain) which is some tens of miles west of the town of Louis Trichardt. They are both buried there.
A photo was taken of Leo and son, Paul, at the home of Bill and Jean Fripp at Bulawayo in 1951 (see scrapbook). Bill (William Alfred Fripp) is a descendant of the Fripp family of Hilton, Dorset, UK. His line appears to go back to Samuel Fripp b.1683 at Hilton, son of Samuel Fripp. At this time (April 2003) it is not known if this Samuel is connected to the Fripps of Bristol. The Hilton line may be added to this Website at a future date. Bill was a navigator with No.97 Pathfinder Squadron and a section about him can be found at www.97-squadron.co.uk.
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NOTES: from Rod Fripp
I seem to recall that Catherine Fripp (nee de Soyres) was a doctor of medicine, and I know, from an old photo album, that she was friendly with Susan Beatrice Lock (Leo’s wife and my grandmother, probably when they were in London. Susan at the Slade Art School and Catherine doing medicine at Bedford College? Susan’s sister Sybil was at Bedford too.Susan was a silver medallist at the RA, in London, and many of her portraits were exhibited at the Spode (?) gallery. One of her commissioned portraits is at the National Portrait Gallery, London, of law historian Frederic William Maitland, and there is one of her father, Judge benjamin Fossett Lock, at the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester.
Susan Beatrice died in 1913 a month after my father was born, so her fine talents were lost forever. Oh for penicillin in 1913!! A country hospital would have been the worst, and most infected place, for a new mother to recuperate after her second child. However she did paint large oil portraits of all her family, including a fine self-portrait before she left for South Africa in 1906/7. I have this, together with one of her brother Paul Fosset ( he resembles my father), and I have some of her South African landscapes.
Because she was married to Leopold, the first private-practicing surveyor in South Africa, she travelled to some wild places, including four field seasons at what is now the Kruger National Park.
Beatrice’s portrait of her mother, Jane Elizabeth Hammond, is a magnificent full size one of her seated in a chair, and used to hang on Rosemary’s wall when she lived in Barnstaple — that is, until her husband, Tommy, decided to sell it to some real-estate(?) scoundrel for £100, in order to dress up a mansion he was selling. Fortunately I have a professional b/w photo of that portrait , probably done by the Royal Academy in 1906. The R.A. has a list of all of the oils by Beatrice Fripp (nee Lock) that were exhibited there.
Leo and his family took regular summer holidays on the south coast near Ringstead Beach, at South Down farm (now National Trust) which his family rented from the farmer for holidays. That was where Leo met Susan, because the two families shared the big farmhouse for holidays. I visited South Down a few years ago - the farm house is the same as it was when Leo photographed it in about 1898!
Extracts from the records of the register of exhibits at the Royal Academy, taken in person by her niece, Rosemary Hart (nee Bulkeley, deceased) about 1995. ARTIST: Miss Beatrice Lock EXHIBITED: 1906
ITEM: 823 - B Fosset Lock, Esq. ITEM: 1220 - The Artist’s Mother
ARTIST: Mrs Beatrice Fripp (formerly Lock) of 4, St James Terrace, Regent’s Park NW EXHIBITED: 1908
ITEM: 197 - The late Frederick Ian Maitland, Esq., Downing Professor of Law, Cambridge
EXHIBITED: 1910
ITEM: 563 - LucyEXHIBITED: 1912
ITEM: 146 - The Artist’s Mother
1881 census: North Villa, Hampstead, London, Middlesex
Source: FHL Film 1341036 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0166 Folio 74 Page 8
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Benjamin F. LOCK M 33 M Dorchester, Dorset, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Barrister In Actual Ptce
Jane E. LOCK M 29 F Sopley, Hampshire, England
Rel: Wife
Susan B. LOCK 8 m F Hampstead, Middlesex, England
Rel: Daur
Elizabeth MONK U 28 F S End, Surrey, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Genl Servant Domestic
NOTES from Rod Fripp:
Honor was brought up in England by her grandparents, Ben and Jane Lock, at Bridlington.Her father’s letters explain an illness that hit her after she graduated B.Sc. Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, and had started teaching at a privileged girls high school in Johannesburg. The illness would today be the schichzophrenia likely to be labelled catatonic, typically hits post-puberty females, and accompanied by occasional unpredictable intemperate sessions. It being the 1930’s she was institutionalised in Johannesburg She died 7 January 1976, still in that institution. She never met her nephew, Rod.
Henry emigrated to South Africa, about 1870, and started Fripps photographic business. For more details click here.
He also took the photos at his cousin Leopold’s wedding at Cape Town in 1907. See example.
NOTES from Rod Fripp: July 2002
The Lock law practice in Dorchester goes back to his father and his various relatives. He is a descendant of the publishing families Ward Lock. An extensive and very formal Lock family Tree was put together by David Beamish , a lawyer who worked as a clerk at Parliament Office, House of Lords . It is called The Family of William Lock of Dorchester (1780-1951), Dorset. I would think he would have lodged a copy at a peerage library? Benjamin F. Lock was a close friend of Thomas Hardy – they went through Eton together as pals and Hardy wrote an Eulogy for Ben titled "Nothing Matters Much", who beat him to the Newcastle Gold Medal at Eton. I have seen that Gold medal, only a few years ago in the possession of my second cousin Rosemary Hart of Dulverton (she a granddaughter of Ben’s) . She died 2 years ago, quickly followed by her own daughter Angela(?), so I don’t know what happened to it because Angela was the end of that line without descendants. I hope it went to the Dorset County Museum - I did ask Rosemary to put it there. His obituary is in The Times for Sat Aug 12, 1922 and the Bridlington Chronicle for 18 Aug, 1922. I have the clippings. BF Lock knew Sir Alfred Downing Fripp.He is presumed to be named after Benjamin Fossett who married his mother's sister, Elizabeth Cole
His Honour Judge Benjamin Fossett Lock 1847 - 1922
Benjamin Fossett Lock was one of the many sons of Dorset who have made their reputations outside the County whilst maintaining strong ties within it.
B. Fossett Lock was the youngest of the three sons of Henry Lock (1813 - 1880), Solicitor and twice Mayor of Dorchester, who in 1835 founded the solicitors’ practice which is still carried on there. The eldest son, Arthur Henry (1845 - 1900) carried on this practice, and, like his father, was twice Mayor of Dorchester. The second son, the Reverend Dr. Walter Lock D.D., pursued an academic career at Oxford; from 1897 to 1920 he was Warden of Keble College, and from 1919 to 1927 he held the Lady Margaret Chair of Divinity.
All three sons of Henry Lock began their formal education at William Barnes’ School in South Street. Fossett subsequently attended Hardye’s Grammar School, whence he obtained a scholarship to Eton. After graduating from King’s College, Cambridge in 1871, Fossett was called to the Bar in 1873. Whilst practising at Chancery, Fossett also became leader of the Dorset Quarter Sessions.
Fossett Lock’s most enduring influence on English Law originated in his work in Dorset. With the support of other counsel, he devoted himself to the cause of poor persons who were unable to afford legal representation. The experiments of the Dorset Quarter Sessions led directly to the introduction in 1903 of the statutory “Dock Brief”, and ultimately to the Legal Aid Scheme of the present day.
In 1895 Fossett Lock was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Selden Society, a learned and eminent Society founded in 1887 to promote scholarly and historical research into English Law. It was his work in the Selden Society that qualified him to contribute to the Dictionary of National Biography the entry on F.W. Maitland, the greatest of all legal historians. Fossett Lock relinquished his duties in the Selden Society in 1913 when he was appointed County Court Judge for the East Riding of Yorkshire. On that appointment he chose to live in Bridlington because it reminded him of the Dorset Coast.
Fossett Lock was well-known beyond the legal world as a writer and Positivist. The chief tenet of Positivism was that Society should be conducted according to Reason and Science, not according to tradition and dogma. Fossett held high office in the Positivist Church: he was a renowned exponent of its principles, and an indefatigable critic of Victorian values. His sentiments were republican, and his opinions were consistently radical.
That Fossett Lock achieved high office in the Law in spite of his unpopular views was probably due to the great fairness and reasonableness with which his views were articulated. In numerous essays and newspaper articles, of some stylistic sophistication, as well as polemical form, he would take an issue of the moment and explore its legal, political and ethical implications.
In his obituaries great stress was placed on his fairness and sympathy with the underdog and the literary merits of his judgements. Reference is also made to his membership of the Royal Navy Artillery Volunteers, that every year he spent his holidays in Dorset, and that, being passionately fond of the sea, “there was nothing he liked better than cruising in a sailing boat along the coast of his native county”.
Fossett Lock was for many years a member of the Dorset Field Club and a Vice-President of the Society of Dorset Men in London. He was also a life-long friend of Thomas Hardy. When Lock died in 1922, at Bridlington, Hardy wrote the elegy, “Nothing Matters Much,” dedicated to B.F.L.”
A portrait was painted by his daughter, Susan Beatrice Fripp, and presented to the Museum by his granddaughter, Rosemary Hart.
Data from Website: Click here to visit
Judge. Educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge: a scholar at both institutions. Took a BA degree in 1871, and MA in 1877. Initially active as a judge on the Dorset Circuit and Sessions, but in 1913 he became County Court Judge for part of Yorkshire. Honorary Secretary of the London Positivist Society from 1880 until 1886, when he resigned from the Society because he disagreed with other Positivists' support of the Prime Minister William Gladstone's policy of political autonomy for Ireland. Examiner to the Council of Legal Education, 1896–1906. Chairman of Committee of the Social and Political Education League, 1887–1913 Chairman of the central Legal Aid Society. Honorary Secretary of the Selden Society, 1895–1913. Held Commission in the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, 1890–1892. Member of Admiralty Volunteer Committee. Member of the South African Conciliation Committee during the Boer war.
Publications: Joint-editor of the Annual Practice, 1910–1911; Memoir of Professor Maitland, in the Dictionary of National Biography; sundry articles and pamphlets on the defence of poor prisoners and legal aid for the poor.
1881 census
Dwelling: North Villa
Census Place: Hampstead, London, Middlesex, England
Source: FHL Film 1341036 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0166 Folio 74 Page 8
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Benjamin F. LOCK M 33 M Dorchester, Dorset, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Barrister In Actual Ptce
Jane E. LOCK M 29 F Sopley, Hampshire, England
Rel: Wife
Susan B. LOCK 8 m F Hampstead, Middlesex, England
Rel: Daur
Elizabeth MONK U 28 F S End, Surrey, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Genl Servant Domestic
Free BMD: Births Mar 1848
Lock Benjamin Fossill - Dorchester 8 50
Possible parents and siblings
LOCKE, William Henry Parminter Chr 1836 Engl Glou Bristo
Fa: Henry LOCKE
Mo: Susan
LOCK, Arthur Henry Chr 1845 Engl Dors Dorche
Fa: Henry LOCK
Mo: Susannah Ware
LOCK, Benjamin Fossett Chr 1848 Engl Dors Dorche
Fa: Henry LOCK
Mo: Susan Ware
LOCK, Jessie Susan Chr 1849 Engl Dors Dorche
Fa: Henry LOCK
Mo: Susanna Ware
NOTES from Rod Fripp:
Jane Elizabeth was, like her judge husband, a local notable who was the founding president of the Girl Guides at Bridlington, and was on the National Council of Women (formerly the National Union of Women Workers). Her obituary in the Bridlington Chronicle is informative.Beatrice’s portrait of her mother is a magnificent full size one of her seated in a chair, and used to hang on Rosemary’s wall when she lived in Barnstaple - that is, until her husband Tommy decided to sell it to some real-estate(?) scoundrel for £100, in order to dress up a mansion he was selling. Fortunately I have a professional b/w photo of that portrait , probably done by the Royal Academy in 1906.
Anne's family tree can be linked back, by marriage, to Ann Cromwell, sister of Oliver the younger. She was a grand-daughter (need to check this) of a Hammond that married Ann Cromwell.
She died at 43 High Street, Bridlington, Yorkshire
1881 census: North Villa, Hampstead, London, Middlesex
Source: FHL Film 1341036 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0166 Folio 74 Page 8
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Benjamin F. LOCK M 33 M Dorchester, Dorset, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Barrister In Actual Ptce
Jane E. LOCK M 29 F Sopley, Hampshire, England
Rel: Wife
Susan B. LOCK 8 m F Hampstead, Middlesex, England
Rel: Daur
Elizabeth MONK U 28 F S End, Surrey, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Genl Servant Domestic
Born at 30 Queens Square, London; educated at Westminster School; student at Lincoln's Inn; representative of Messrs John Dickinson and Co Ltd.; died unmarried.
Born at 30 Queen's Square, London; educated at King's School, Canterbury; Planter's manager at Norarpur, Behar, India; served WW1 as Seargent in the Motor Transport on the River Tigris and later, during the siege of Kut, as 2nd Lieutenant in the 104th (Wellington) Rifles, Indian Army (Reserve of Officers); mentioned in despatches in both ranks; taken prisoner at Kut-el-Amara; died unmarried on or about 1st Aug 1916 at Kastamuni (a Turkish prisoner of War).