Charles Dealtry Locock

Sir Charles Dealtry Locock (27 September 1862 – 13 May 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet. He translated numerous Swedish plays and books of poetry.

Life and career
Charles Dealtry Locock was born September 27, 1862, in Brighton, England. He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University and then published several works on the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.He was a skilled chess player, winning the British Amateur Championship in 1887  and writing extensively on the game. From 1904 until 1915 he was the editor of the Croquet Association Gazette.Locock translated several Swedish authors, including the poets Esaias Tegnér and Gustaf Fröding and the playwright August Strindberg.His translation of the Strindberg play "The Dance of Death" was used in the 1969 film adaptation starring Laurence Olivier. He died May 13, 1946, in London.

C. D. Locock and his American contemporary, Charles Wharton Stork, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation. Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.

Selected works
Side and Screw 1901
Modern Croquet Tactics 1907
Olympian Echoes 1908
The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1911
120 Chess Problems and Puzzles 1912 [7]
Selected translations
Thirty-two passages from the Iliad 1922
Thirty-two passages from the Odyssey 1923
Fritiof's Saga by Esaias Tegnér 1924
Guitar and Concertina by Gustaf Fröding 1925
Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 1 1929
Easter and other plays by August Strindberg 1929
Lucky Peter's Travels and other plays by August Strindberg 1930
Master Olof and other plays by August Strindberg 1931
Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 2 1936 

References
 Charles Dealtry Locock chessgames.com. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
 Foster, Joseph, ed. (1893). Oxford Men and their Colleges. Oxford: University of Oxford. p. 377.
 Who Was Who In Literature, 1906-1934, (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979) Volume 2, p. 686
 CA Gazette swfcroquet.org.uk. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
 The Dance Of Death imdb.com. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
 Songs and poems from Sweden archive.org. Retrieved: May 23, 2016.
 Locock Bibliography archive.org. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
 The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography, (James T. White & Company: Clifton, New Jersey, 1975), Volume 56, pp. 141-142

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