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George Berkeley's father was William Berkeley and his mother is believed to have been Elisabeth Southerne, although this has not been verified with complete certainty.

William Berkeley was a gentleman farmer whose family originally came from Staffordshire in England while Elisabeth Southerne was the daughter of a Dublin brewer.

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George grew up in Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, which his father owned. He entered the Duke of Ormonde's School in Kilkenny in July and studied there until January and then, although still not fifteen years of age, he entered Trinity College, Dublin.

He matriculated in March , just after he reached the age of fifteen as a pensioner, meaning that he did not have a scholarship and paid for his own keep in College. In he was elected to an Erasmus Smith exhibition, and was awarded a scholarship in the following year.

He graduated with a B.A. in the spring of

Stewart writes [3]:-

After graduating he prepared an elementary textbook in which