William John Locke

William John Locke, a British novelist, dramatist, and playwright, is most remembered for his short stories. He was born on March 20, 1863, in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guiana, as the eldest son of John Locke, Barbados' bank manager, and his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth Locke. His parents were English. In 1864, his family relocated to Trinidad & Tobago. Charlie Alfred Locke, a second son born in 1865, went on to become a doctor. Charlie Locke died in 1904, at the age of 39. His half-sister, Anna Alexandra Hyde, from his father's second marriage, died in childbirth in 1898 at the age of 25. At the age of three, Locke was taken to England for additional study. He spent nine years in England before returning to Trinidad to attend prep school with his brother at Queen's Royal College. There, he won an exhibition to attend St John's College in Cambridge. He returned to England in 1881 to study at Cambridge University, where he graduated with honors in Mathematics in 1884, despite his distaste of the "utterly futile and inhuman subject".