Volume 1
Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne.
- Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909.
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Student Life at Oxford. [1652—1660.] HAYING- been elected to a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, at Whitsuntide, 1652, Locke pro- ceeded in the autumn to claim his right of admission to the university, and matriculated on the 27tli of Novem- ber. His name appears under that date in the records of the college, with the description “ generosi lilius,” son of a gentleman.1 Though at Westminster School he had been very near to the centre of all the political and religious excitement of the day, he could hardly have had a quieter corner in all England in which to learn how to talk Latin as fluently as his mother-tongue, and to acquaint himself wdth all the pedantic rules of grammar which had been bequeathed by the mediaeval schoolmen. In becoming a student at Oxford he entered a much larger and more boisterous world. When, in the autumn of 1642, Charles the First, kept out of London, found shelter in Oxford—which he had just before inundated by the nomination of four hundred and two “ courtiers, nobles, and gentlemen,” and other 1 Christ Church College Entry Book. The common statement that Locke went to Oxford in 1651 may be partly excused on the ground that he was elected to his studentship in the fourth (i.e. Trinity) term of the academical year beginning in 1651.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28145252_0001_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
