The Honourable George Berkeley was a member of Parliament for Dover in 1720 and in the following two parliaments, and for Hedon, Yorkshire, in 1734.
Background
He was the fourth and youngest son of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth Noel. (Elizabeth was the daughter of Baptist Noel, Viscount Campden, and the sister of Edward, first earl of Gainsborough) He attended Westminster School from its foundation in 1708 and Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1711, graduating Master of Arts there in 1713.
Education
Trinity College; Westminster School.
Career
On 28 May 1723 he received an appointment as master keeper and governor of Street Katharine"s Hospital in London, and filled that post until his death. One of them, Lord Hervey, described him as:
neither young, handsome, healthy, nor rich, which made people wonder what induced Lady Suffolk"s prudence to deviate into this unaccountable piece of folly: some imagined it was to persuade the world that nothing criminal had ever passed between her and the king, others that it was to pique the king. If this was her reason, she succeeded very ill in her design.
However, in a letter from Elizabeth Germain to Jonathan Swift on 12 July 1735, Elizabeth described Lady Suffolk as
indeed four or five years older than.
But for all that he has appeared to all the world, as well as to me, to have long had (that is, ever since she has been a widow, so pray do not mistake me) a most violent passion for her, as well as esteem and value for her numberless good qualities.
Membership
6th Parliament of Great Britain. 7th Parliament of Great Britain. 8th Parliament of Great Britain.
9th Parliament of Great Britain.
5th Parliament of Great Britain.