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LEFT LOCKE 502 LOCK HAVEN lected and published in book form in 1868, under the title of "Swingin' Round the Circle" and "Letters from Confederit X-Roads." He died in Toledo, 0., Feb. 15, 1888. LOCKE, JOHN, an English philoso- pher; born in Wrington, in Somerset- shire, in 1632. He was educated at Westminster and Christchurch College, Oxford. In 1666 he was introduced to Lord Ashley, afterward Earl of Shaftes- bury, and when in 1672, Lord Shaftes- bury was appointed lord-chancellor, he made Locke secretary of presentations, and at a later period, secretary to the Board of Trade. On his patron retir- ing to Holland, to avoid a state prosecu- tion, Locke accompanied him. The English eiftvoy demanded Locke of the JOHN LOCKE States, on suspicion of his being con- cerned in Monmouth's rebellion, which necessitated his temporary concealment. At the revolution he returned to England and was made a commissioner of appeals, and in 1695 a commissioner of trade and plantations. He resided the last few years of his life, at Oates, in Essex. As a philosopher, Locke stands at the head of v/hat is called the Sensational School in England. His greatest work is the "Essay on the Human Understanding." His other works are the "Treatise on Civil Government," "Letters on Tolera- tion," "On the Conduct of the Under- standing," "Vindication of the Reason- ableness of Christianity." He died in 1704. LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN, an Eng- lish novelist, born in Barbados in 1863. He was educated at the Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, and at St. John's Col- lege at Cambridge. He was an archi- tect by profession and from 1897 to 1907 was secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In the meantime he wrote many novels which were well re- ceived by the critics but which were not popular with the public. His first novel to attain publicity was "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne" in 1905. This was followed in the next year by his best- known book, "The Beloved Vagabond." This was followed by "Septimus," 1907; "Simon the Jester," 1910; "Stella Ma- ris," 1913; "The Fortunate Youth," 1914; "Jaffery," 1915. Locke is one of the most widely read of modern English novelists. LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREBERICK, an English versifier; born in 1821. He served some years as precis-writer in the Admiralty office, and made his name widely known as a writer of unusually bright and clever society verses by his "London Lyrics" (1857). Later books are "Lyra Elegantiarum" (1867) and "Patch-work" (1879). In 1850 he mar- ried a daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin, who died in 1872; and in 1874 the daugh- ter of Sir Curtis Lampson, when Locker added the name of Lampson to his own. Eleanor, his daughter by the first mar- riage, in 1878 married Lionel Tennyson. He died May 30, 1895. LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, a Scotch biographer and editor; born in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 14, 1794. He was educated at Glas- gow University; gained an exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford; studied for the Scottish bar, but never practiced; and began his literary career in 1817 as a contributor to the newly-established "Blackwood's Magazine." In 1820 he married the daughter of Sir Walter Scott, and in 1826 succeeded Gifford as editor of the "Quarterly Review," a po- sition which he occupied for 27 years. As the author of the life of Sir Walter Scott he will be remembered. He died in Abbotsford, Nov. 25, 1854. LOCK HAVEN, a city and county- seat of Clinton co.. Pa.; on the West Branch canal, and the Pennsylvania and Erie railroads; 25 miles W. S. W. of Williamsport; in a beautiful mountain valley. The manufacture and shipment of pine and other lumber is the chief busmess interest. It has churches of the leading denominations. National bank, newspapers, public and private schools, State normal school^ hotels, gas works, foundries and tanneries, machine shops, planing-mills and sawmills. A bridge crosses the river here. Pop. (1910) 7,772; (1920) 8,557.