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.
Andrew C. Locke
Locke was born at Parramatta NSW, Australia in 1962 to parents Stanley and Christina Locke both Scottish Migrants who settled in Australia in 1955 from Hong Kong. His father Stanley Benjamin Locke served as a British Commando with the 3rd Commando Brigade, Number 4 troop of number 1 Commando in Burma during WW2, he survived the Battle of Hill 170 where the troop leader was awarded a Victoria cross and where 50% of the 24 man troop were killed. After the war he worked in Hong Kong as a revenue officer with the dept of Imports and Exports in the British Colonial Civil Service.