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Then he was admitted at the Christ Church College at Oxford University , where he developed greater interest in modern philosophy , such as Rene Descartes , than the school ‘s classical material . He earned a bachelor ‘s degree in 1656 , a master ‘s degree in 1 658 and a bachelor of medicine degree in 1674 . He worked with renowned scientists and thinkers , like Robert Bayle , Thomas Willis , Robert Hooked and Richard Lower . In 1666 , he met Anthony Ashley Cooper , the first Earl of Subterfuge , who was then seeking treatment for a liver infection .
Cooper got impressed with Locke and convinced him to move into Lord Ashley ‘s home in 1667 as his personal physician . Locke then resumed his medical studies under Thomas Saddened who would later influence Locke ‘s thinking . Meantime , Locke coordinated with several other physicians on the life-threatening condition of Subterfuge ‘s liver condition and persuaded the latter to submit to surgery to remove the Yes . The surgery was successful and Subterfuge credited Locke with saving his life . In that period , Locke served as Secretary of the Board of Trade and
Plantations and as Secretary to the Lords and Proprietors of the Carolinas (Microsoft Incarnate , Wisped , Galois Subterfuge was a founder of the Whig Movement and thus had great influence on Locke ‘s political thinking (Wisped 2006 , Microsoft Incarnate 2006 , Galois 2001 . Locke got involved in politics when Subterfuge became Lord Chancellor in 1672 . Around 1679 , Locke wrote his two treatises of government in defense of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and to oppose the philosophy of Sir Robert F-Elmer and Thomas Hobbes . While in the
Netherlands in 1 683 , he had the chance to rework his Essay and to compose his Letter on Toleration . After the Glorious Revolution , he accompanied the wife of William of Orange back to England in 1688 . He spent time at the country house of his friend , Lady Mash where he met and discussed matters with prominent thinkers like John Dryden and Isaac Newton . He had bouts Of asthma and his health continued to decline until he died in 1704 . Locke never married or have any children . Main events , which occurred in his lifetime , were the English Restoration , the Great Plague of London and he Great Fire of London .