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Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson MP PC (19 June 1875 – 1 May 1946) was a British Conservative politician, poet and essayist. Locker-Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1898, was appointed Third Secretary in December 1900,[2] and was posted at The Hague and St Petersburg until he left the Diplomatic service in 1903. He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1908, though never practised. He served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry from 1914 to 1916 and was briefly ADC to Lt.-General Henry Hughes Wilson of IV Corps on the Western Front, during which time he was said to have used his diplomatic skills to effect a rapprochement between Wilson and Lloyd George.[3]He was a published poet, essayist and historian. His works include A Consideration of the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (1907), On Freedom (1911), Oratory, British and Irish. The Great Age from the accession of George the Third to the Reform Bill, 1832 (1918), The County Gentleman, and Other Essays (1932), and Sun and Shadow: Collected Love Lyrics and other poems (1945).