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George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, KB (1601 – 10 August 1658) was a seventeenth-century English nobleman and a prominent patron of literature in his generation.
Berkeley was one of over 150 new commissioners for determining scandalous offences and one of more than 75 made a commissioner for appeals of Oxford University. Berkeley was also on the Lords' 'committee to receive complaints from persons sued ' when acting for or under Parliament.
Upon his death he was succeeded by his relative George Harding. His son, the ninth Baron, was created in 1679 Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley, which remained united to the barony until the death of the sixth Earl in 1882, when the earldom passed to a male heir and the barony passed to a female one, Louisa Milman.
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, PC, FRS ( c. 1628 – 10 October 1698) was an English merchant, politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1654 until 1658.
One of the oldest noble families in the country, the Berkeleys claimed descent from both Saxon and Danish notables.11 As holders of Berkeley castle they possessed one of the most ancient family seats also, though tenure of the castle had not been uninterrupted and Berkeley’s father, the 8th Baron, (known as ‘George the traveller’) had ...
11 de set. de 2023 · The castle’s owner, George, 8th Baron Berkeley, had remained in London during the English Civil War. He never openly declared for either the Royalists or the Parliamentarians. His steward, John Smyth, claimed he was a supporter of the King, but he sat regularly in Parliament during the war.
10 de set. de 2004 · George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the great philosophers of the early modern period. He was a brilliant critic of his predecessors, particularly Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke. He was a talented metaphysician famous for defending idealism, that is, the view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas.
