One of the interesting facts about John Locke you should know is that he graduated from the University of Oxford. Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol, in a small thatched cottage near the church. As both his parents were Puritans, he was baptized on the same day. Locke’s father, also known as John, was a barrister who worked as a clerk to the justices of the peace in Chew Magna and as a cavalry commander for the Parliamentary troops during the early stages of the English Civil War. Agnes Keene was his mother’s name. Locke was born in the market town of Pensford, about seven miles south of Bristol, where he grew up in a rural Tudor manor house near Belluton.
Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London in 1647, thanks to the patronage of Alexander Popham, an MP and former commander of John Sr. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, in the autumn of 1652, having completed his education. studies there. At that time the dean of the college was John Owen, university chancellor. Although he was a good student, Locke was dissatisfied with undergraduate education at the time. He found the works of modern philosophers, such as René Descartes, more engaging than the ancient material taught at university. Locke was introduced to medicine and experimental philosophy at other universities and the Royal Society, of which he later became a member, through his Westminster School classmate Richard Lower.
In February 1656 Locke received his bachelor’s degree and in June 1658 he received his master’s degree. He received a Bachelor of Medicine degree in February 1675 after studying medicine at Oxford and working with prominent scientists and intellectuals such as Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis and Robert Hooke. In 1666 he met Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, who had traveled to Oxford for treatment of a liver infection. Ashley was impressed with Locke and convinced him to join his entourage.
