John Locke (MP)

John 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 died in February 1880 and was buried in the catacombs at West Norwood Cemetery.