Photo: Brian Chandler

The headstone reads:

In memoriam
Anne Higginbottom Lockhart
wife of Lewis Chalmers Lockhart
of Summerrods Rigg, only daughter
of the late John Fleming King,
born 18th September 1843, died
2nd July 1887.
Anne King only daughter of the
above named Lewis Chalmers and
Anne Higginbottom Lockhart born
21st June 1887, died 15th February 1892.
Henry King Lockhart their second
son, Master of Arts (Oxford),
Solicitor of the Supreme Court,
Of Judicature and Corporal in,
the Motor Cyclist Section of
the Corps of Royal Engineers,
who was accidentally killed
on 19th June 1915, in the first
year of the war and of his
military service and the 33rd
year of his age.

Henry was the second son of the late Colonel Lewis Chalmers Lockhart VD and the late Anne Higginbottom Lockhart of Summerrods Rigg, Hexham. He was accidentally killed in Hitchin, Hertfordshire while out on his motorcycle. The following is an abridged report of the incident:

'Accidental death' was the verdict returned by a coroner’s jury at the inquest of Corporal Henry King Lockhart. The deceased was found unconscious beside his motor cycle outside Hitchin on Saturday afternoon and he died in hospital.
Frank Foster said he found the deceased lying on the left side of the road. Corporal Norris said marks on the road might have been caused by the deceased machine skidding, or by the studded tyre of a motor-car. The deceased was an expert driver.

Dr Foster said when he found the condition of the deceased was grave, he wired for Sir Alfred Fripp, a London specialist, but he came too late. Supt. Reed said the deceased had taken the motor cycle for a trial trip after having had the engine out of his machine before the fatality.

The cortege left the military hospital at 9.30pm attended by 1000 troops, who lined the roadways leading to the station. Here the body was entrained for the north.

The Newcastle Daily Journal, Tuesday, 22/06/1915.

Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.

Henry King Lockhart is remembered at Hexham on H51.03, H51.06, H51.26, H51.29, H51.35, H51.46 and H51.51 and on the Exeter College WW1 Memorial, Oxford.

Exeter College WW1 Memorial, Oxford
The CWGC entry for Corporal Lockhart