Matthew Prior
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Matthew Prior was an English poet, statesman, and diplomat, who played a crucial role in securing the Treaties of Utrecht, serving as Minister Plenipotentiary to France from 1712 to 1715. He is also k
Portrait c. 1718
Prior by Thomas Hudson
Monument to Prior in Westminster Abbey
John Locke
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John Locke 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". His important works
Matthew Prior
…from assassination in 1696; and a brief piece called The Secretary. After his return from France, Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded John Locke as a commissioner of trade. In 1701 he sat in Parliament for East Grinstead. He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697
An engraved memorial plaque to Locke at Oxford
Christ Church College, Oxford
John Locke, earliest known portrait, John Greenhill c. 1672-73