LOCKETT, Peter Henry Ross, Rev. (1906-1988)
Memorial minute Presbytery of Melb North 1988
Peter Henry Ross Lockett was born at Boulder City in Western Australia in 1906. With his family he moved to South Australia settling in Mount Barker. He grew up in the Church and by the age of sixteen was Secretary of the Board of Management of the Mount Barker Church. Upon leaving High School he entered the building industry becoming a carpenter. It was while working at his trade in the Wyalla shipyards that he responded to the appeal of Rev. G.A. Wood to offer himself to train for the ministry.
In 1942 the Home Missions Committee appointed him to Murray Bridge, from there to Minyip in Victoria and then Lock, and finally to Cranbourne.
□n completion of his studies in Ormond College he was appointed as an exit student to the South Australian Charge of Hart-Koolunga where in 1951 he was ordained to the ministry. In 1954 he accepted a Call to Adelaide Metropolitan Charge of Woodville. The South Australian Assembly appointed him Moderator in 1959-60. From Woodville he served in Mt. Pleasant 1961-63 and in the Victorian Charges of Yarrawonga, Gisborne and North Ballarat retiring in 1978.
Harry Lockett will be remembered as a fine parish minister and preacher deeply concerned for the welfare of his fellowmen. In 1926 he spent a time helping to build the A.I.M. Hostel at Innamincka and retained a lifetime interest in the work of that organisation.
As Convener of the South Australian Immigration Committee he worked tirelessly to assist many a family to settle in this land.
He leaves a wife and five adult children, one of his sons-in-law is the present Moderator-General, the Rt. Rev. E.R. Pearsons.
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