Locke, John Also John Locke, the father was a lawyer and a clerk to the local Justices of the Peace. Alexander Popham, one of the magistrates of Somerset for whom Locke's father worked, was Lock e's first patron. Popham secured his admission to Westminster School in 1646 and was apparent ly instrumental in his later election to a Studentship in Christ Church in 1652. (Interne t - http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/locke.html)