David Lockwood (sociologist)

David Lockwood (9 April 1929 – 6 June 2014) was a British sociologist.

Early life

Lockwood was born on 9 April 1929 in Holmfirth, England, and was the youngest child in his working-class family. His father, Herbert, was a dyer and then retrained as a cobbler after being wounded during the First World War and he died in 1939, when Lockwood was 10. His mother, Edith, was a cleaner.

Lockwood attended Honley Grammar School, and then went to work in 1944 at Victoria Textiles as a bookkeeper. He took evening classes at Huddersfield Technical College.