Roger Stuart Woolhouse (15 February 1940 – 24 September 2011) was an English philosopher, an expert on empiricism and rationalism and a biographer of John Locke.
[1] He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School, London University (Philosophy) and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate.
[2] From 1969 until his retirement in 2001, Woolhouse worked in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York.
[2] Cambridge University Press requested Woolhouse write a biography of Locke, the last major biography being Maurice Cranston's 1957 work.
After his death, York's Department of Philosophy founded the Roger Woolhouse Prize, an annual £500 prize awarded to MA Philosophy students.