John locke biography timelines

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 , 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

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

Locke enters Westminster School with sponsorship from Alexander Popham an MP and one of his father&#;s military commanders