LIFE AND WORKS
JOHN Locke was born on August 29, 1632, the oldest child of a respectable Somersetshire family of puritan sympathies. His father was a lawyer, small land owner, [1]who at the same time of the puritan revolt became a petty officer in the army of the notorious Cromwell. Locke lost his mother while he was yet very young.[2] Locke’s early education was carefully tended by his father at their rural home at beluton, near Bristol; and it was probably the influence of the elders Locke’s parliamentary patrons that he obtained a place Westminster School, where he remained from his fourteenth to his twentieth year. In 1652 he won a scholarship to Christ Church College, Oxford.
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