John Locke (MP)
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, August 1871John Locke (1805 – 28 January 1880)[1] was an English barrister, author and Liberal Party politician.
The only son of John Locke, a surveyor of Herne Hill, he was educated at Dulwich College. Reading law at Trinity College, Cambridge, he left with an MA in 1832 and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1833.[2]
Between 1845 and 1857 he was a common pleader of the City of London, and counsel to the Inland Revenue. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for
affirm
as in civil cases.
He died in February 1880 and was buried in the
catacombs at West Norwood Cemetery
.
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
- ^ "Locke, John (LK824J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
Sources
- Locke, John (1805–1880), J. A. Hamilton, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Locke
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