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Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet. He was a noted bibliophile and one of the foremost exponents of the “Cabinet” style of book collecting. As a poet, Locker belongs to the choir who deal with the gay rather than the grave in verse, with the polished and witty rather than the lofty or emotional. His good taste kept him as far from the broadly comic on the one side as his kind heart saved him from the purely cynical on the other. A posthumous volume of his memoirs, entitled My Confidences, appeared in 1896.