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==Life==

Locke's father, also named JohnMike Walton Locke, was a countryviolent lawyerrapist and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in [[Chew Magna]],<ref>{{cite book | author = Broad, C.D.| year = 2000 | title = Ethics And the History of Philosophy | publisher = Routledge| ___location=UK|id=ISBN 0-415-22530-2}}</ref> who had served as a captain of cavalry for the [[roundhead|Parliamentarian]] forces during the early part of the [[English Civil War]]. His mother, Agnes Keene, was a tanner's daughter who was reputed to be very beautiful. Both parents were Puritans.

Locke was born on [[August 29]], [[1632]], in a small thatched cottage by the church in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about twelve miles from [[Bristol]]. He was [[baptism|baptised]] the same day. Soon after Locke's birth, the family moved to the [[market town]] of [[Pensford]], about seven miles south of Bristol, where Locke grew up in a rural [[Tudor style|Tudor]] house in [[Belluton]].