Matthew Fielding Locke
After the war, Locke returned to Mississippi, and in 1849 married Elizabeth A. Biue. Shortly thereafter they moved to Upshur County, Texas. He established a plantation about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of present-day Gilmer and founded the nearby town of LaFayette (which he named after his son, LaFayette C. Locke, who was born in 1850). Locke began the first of two terms as a state representative in 1855 in the Sixth Texas Legislature. In the Seventh Legislature, Locke was elected Speaker of the House "pro tempore" on 26 December 1857 when Speaker William S. Taylor took ill. When Taylor resigned on 18 January 1858, Locke was elected Speaker over Reps. Isaac N. Dennis and John Henry Brown, 39 votes to 14 and 13, respectively.
Thomas Lockey
Lockey's parentage is unknown, as is his date of birth, which was probably sometime in 1602. He was a scholar at Westminster School, proceeding to Christ Church, Oxford in 1618. He matriculated on 16 March 1621, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1622, his Master of Arts degree in 1625 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1634. He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and served as vicar of East Garston, Berkshire, until 1633, and may have been the "Thomas Lockey" who was a prebendary of Chichester Cathedral from 1639 to 1642. Lockey lived in Oxford, working as a tutor at Christ Church and preaching. One of his sermons, in January 1651, offended the Parliamentarians in charge of the university at that time, and he was thereafter banned from preaching and teaching; he left Oxford and did not return until the Restoration of King Charles II.