George Monck Berkeley

(b. Feb. 8, 1763, Bray, Berkshire – d. Jan. 26, 1793, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire )

Gender: M

George Monck Berkeley (1763-1793) was the son of Rev George Berkeley and Elizabeth Frinsham. He was a precocious student, attending King’s School, Canterbury, Eton College, St Andrew’s University and Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He was known as a playwright and author, and wrote an acclaimed biography of Jonathan Swift. He went to Dover for the sake of his health and died in Cheltenham at the age of thirty.

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