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In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.

After completing his studies there, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford.

The dean of the college at the time was John Owen, vice-chancellor of the university.

Although a capable student, Locke was irritated by the undergraduate curriculum of the time.

He found the works of modern philosophers, such as René Descartes, more interesting than the classical material taught at the university.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.