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John Locke was a seventeenth century philosopher and diplomat most famous for his “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.”

When and Where was he Born?

29th August 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England in a small thatched cottage by the parish church.

Family Background:

John Locke was the son of a Puritan country lawyer, landowner and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna, who was a captain of horse in the parliamentary army during the English Civil War. His mother, Agnes (nee Keene), was the daughter of a tanner. Both were Puritans.

Education:

Westminster School. Christ Church College, Oxford, where he became more interested in the modern Philosophy of Renee Descartes than the classicism of the curriculum.

Timeline of John Locke

1632: The family move to Pensford near Bristol and lived in a tudor house in Belluton.

1646:Locke enters Westminster School with sponsorship from Alexander Popham an MP and one of his father&#