Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Locke was, indeed, William Locke’s son. Of the father of the latter we know no more than that, whilst himself manager of a coal-mine at White-lane, in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, he was sufficiently esteemed and possessed sufficient interest to be able to procure for one of his sons, John Locke, the appointment of manager of a colliery at Kipa, a village situated some six or seven miles from Leeds. In this colliery John Locke ultimately became a partner. That his reputation and influence remained unimpaired, we are enabled to gather from the fact that a few years later he obtained for his other son, William, the father of Joseph Locke, a similar situation at Attercliffe, in the neighbourhood of Sheffield.
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