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John Lok was the son of Sir William Lok, the great-great-great-grandfather of the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). In 1554 he was captain of a trading voyage to Guinea . An account of his voyage was published in 1572 by Richard Eden .
John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
John Locke is a fictional character played by Terry O'Quinn on the ABC television series Lost. He is named after the English philosopher of the same name . [ 1 ] In 2007, O'Quinn won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Locke.
During the same period (around 1589–1600), another English writer, Richard Hakluyt, described a voyage by John Lok to Guinea, where he found "people without heads, called Blemines, having their eyes and mouth in their breast." [64] The authorship of the report is ambiguous. [65]
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William Lok was the second son of Thomas Lok, a London mercer, and the grandson of John Lok, also a mercer, who was Sheriff of London in 1461. [1] His mother was Joan Wilcock (d. 1512), only daughter of one 'Mr Wilcock' of Rotherham, Yorkshire. [2] [3]
The local Portuguese, who also had local fort-settlements, were belligerent in defending what they viewed as their monopoly. Some of the tribes he met had fear of the raiding Portuguese, although on his second voyage, he encountered some tribes that recalled the extraction by a prior English expedition by John Lok of a handful of black Africans ...
Michael Lok was born in Cheapside in London, [1] by his own account in 1532. [2] He was one of the nineteen children, [3] and the youngest of the five surviving sons of Sir William Lok (1480–1550), [1] gentleman usher to Henry VIII and mercer, sheriff and alderman of London, by his second wife, Katherine Cooke (d.1537), daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire.