John Francis Lockwood

Sir John Francis Lockwood (6 July 1903 – 11 July 1965) was Master of Birkbeck College, London, from 1951 to 1965, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1955 to 1958 In 1965 he produced a controversial report known as "The Lockwood Report" which concerned the foundation of what became the University of Ulster.

He was born in Preston, Lancashire, an only son and elder child of John Lockwood, a , and his wife, Elizabeth Speight. He attended Preston Grammar School and in 1922 he was awarded a classical scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford gaining first class honours in Classics and second class honours in literae humaniores in 1926.

He was briefly a lecturer in Latin at the University of Manchester. In 1927 he joined University College, London as senior assistant lecturer in classics and then lecturer in Greek to 1940 when the classics department moved to Aberystwyth during the Second World War. He became a reader and in 1945 returned to London as professor of Latin.

In 1950 he became the Dean of London University's Faculty of Arts and later joined a committee administering relationship with African and West Indies colleges. He became Master of Birkbeck College in 1951, later deputy Vice-Chancellor and then Vice-Chancellor in 1955. He travelled widely forging links with colleges in the United States and former British colonies in East Africa.

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