J. R. Milton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and at King's College London, where he was Professor of the History of Philosophy until his retirement in 2014. He has published widely on the history of philosophy in the early modern period, concentrating on the life and writings of John Locke. He is General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of
John Locke.