John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist during the 1600s.
             He was also the founder of British empiricism. He is known for his great contribution to
             the Enlightenment period, in which he gave people the idea of natural rights and a
             government that protects those rights. John Locke also wrote a famous essay called
             Concerning Human Understanding and attacked the theory of divine right of kings
             in Two Treatises of Government. John Locke was a very important philosopher and his
             John Locke was born in Wrinlington, Somerset on August 29,1632. He lived from
             1632 to 1704. He was the son of a puritan lawyer who fought for Cromwell in the English
             civil war. The father also named John Locke was a very devoted man to his work and
             family and an even-tempered man.John Locke was educated at Westminniser School and
             Oxford and later became a tutor at the university. His friends urged him to leave the
             church and start writing all of his great ideas, but John Locke said he was not fit for that
             calling, so he remained at the Church of England. He had long been interested in
             Meteorology and the experimental sciences, especially chemistry. He turned to medicine
             and became one of the most known practitioner of his time (Microsoft).
             In 1669, Locke became confidential secretary and personal physician to Anthony
             Ashley Cooper, later Lord Chancellor, and the first earl of Shaftbury. Locke's association
             with Shaftbury enabled him to meet many of the great men of England, but it also caused
             him a great deal of trouble. Shaftbury was indicated for high treason, but Locke was
             suspected of disloyalty. In 1685 he left England for Holland after the revolution of 1688
             Locke was always very interested in psychology, and in about 1670, some of his
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