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Posted by Jude de angulo on Tuesday 7th of April 2026 00:42
Son of Vice Admiral Walter Lock (c. 1756–1835, Vice Admiral of the White) and his wife Sarah Ann Lock (née Griffin, c. 1760–1832). The family resided at Haylands, near Ryde on the Isle of Wight.The unusual given name Nagle was chosen to honour Lieutenant (later Admiral Sir) Edmund Nagle, who in the early 1780s, while both were lieutenants aboard HMS Warwick (50 guns, North American station), rescued Walter Lock after he fell overboard. The incident, which involved considerable risk (including danger from the sea and reportedly a shark in some accounts), became a well-known naval anecdote. It was later recounted by Edmund Burke (Nagle’s kinsman and guardian) and preserved in memoirs by James Prior (1824/1854) and Vice-Admiral John Surman Carden (c. 1850, published 1912). The story reached King George III via Prince William (future William IV), who had also served on Warwick. Naming his son “Nagle” was a direct and personal tribute from the father to the man who had saved his life.The Lock family vault at St Thomas Church, Ryde, records:“In the same vault are deposited the remains of Nagle Lock, late a Commander in the Royal Navy, son of the above Walter and Sarah Ann Lock, who died on the 25th Sept 1818 aged 28.”