Lawyer.
Born at Morden on 18 November 1883, son of Corbet Locke and Esther Alice Holland (1851-1901), he was educated in Winnipeg schools and St. John's College. He articled in law with Arnold Wienholt Bowen at Morden and later studied with Hector Mansfield Howell, Frank Hedley Phippen, and Thomas Roberts Ferguson. Called to the Manitoba Bar in 1905, he practiced law in Winnipeg and was made a King's Counsel (1945). He served as the Returning Officer for Winnipeg South in the 1910 provincial general election.
On 11 September 1907, he married Rachael Saudedale Stephens (1884-1976, daughter of Thomas William Stephens) at Winnipeg and they had three daughters: Elizabeth Barbara Holland Locke (1913-2009, wife of Ferdinand W. Almasy), Mary Georgina Locke (1915-2000, wife of George Kimball Dodd), and Esther Kathleen Locke (1921-2012, wife of Cyril William Buckingham). He was a member of St. Luke's Anglican Church and the Concordia Club.
He died at the Misericordia Hospital on 28 April 1958 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Birth registration [Philip Corbet Locke], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Ontario birth registration [Rachel Stephen], Ancestry.
Marriage registration [Philip Corbett Loche, Rachael Saudedale Stephens], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Elizabeth Barbara Holland Locke, Mary Georfina Locke, Esther Kathleen Locke], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Mary Georgina Locke, George Kimball Dodd], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“City lawyer, P. C. Locke dies at 74,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 April 1958, page 4.
Obituary [Rachael Stephens Locke], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 December 1976, page 25.
Obituary [Mary Georgina Dodd], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 August 2000.
Obituary [Barbara Almasy], Winnipeg Free Press 14 September 2009.
Obituary [Esther Kathleen Buckingham], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 2012.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 1 October 2023
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