Editing George Berkeley (section)

===Marriage and America===
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On 1 August 1728 at [[St Mary le Strand]], London,<ref>{{cite book |title=St Mary le Strand parish register |date=1 August 1728 }}</ref> Berkeley married Anne Forster, daughter of [[John Forster (Chief Justice)|John Forster]], [[Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas]], and Forster's first wife Rebecca Monck. He then went to America on a salary of £100 per annum. He landed near [[Newport, Rhode Island]], where he bought a [[plantation]] at [[Middletown, Rhode Island|Middletown]]{{spaced ndash}}the famous "[[Whitehall Museum House|Whitehall]]". Berkeley purchased several [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|enslaved Africans]] to work on the plantation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=First Scholarship Fund |url=http://www.yaleslavery.org/Endowments/e2schol.html#:~:text=Bishop%20George%20Berkeley%20bought%203,donated%20the%20plantation%20to%20Yale.&text=George%20Berkeley%20had%20slaves%20working%20his%20plantation%20until%20he%20left%20in%201731 |access-date=2020-06-28 |website=Yale, Slavery & Abolition}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Humphreys |first1=Joe |title=What to do about George Berkeley, Trinity figurehead and slave owner? |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-to-do-about-george-berkeley-trinity-figurehead-and-slave-owner-1.4277555 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]}}</ref> In 2023, Trinity College Dublin removed Berkeley's name from one of its libraries because of his slave ownership and his active defence of slavery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Berkeley Name Dropped From Trinity College Library |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/05/09/berkeley-name-dropped-trinity-college-library |website=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=11 May 2023}}</ref>

It has been claimed that "he introduced [[Palladianism]] into America by borrowing a design from [William] Kent's ''Designs of Inigo Jones'' for the door-case of his house in Rhode Island, Whitehall".<ref>Chaney, Edward. T''he Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance (''Frank Cass Publishers, 2000), 324.</ref> He also brought to New England [[John Smybert|John Smibert]], the Scottish artist he "discovered" in Italy, who is generally regarded as the founding father of American portrait painting.<ref>{{cite web |title=John Smibert |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Smibert |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref> Meanwhile, he drew up plans for the ideal city he planned to build on Bermuda.<ref>E. Chaney, "George Berkeley's Grand Tours", ''Evolution of the Grand Tour'', p.&nbsp;324.</ref> He lived at the plantation while he waited for funds for his college to arrive. The funds, however, were not forthcoming. "With the withdrawal from London of his own persuasive energies, opposition gathered force; and the Prime Minister, [[Robert Walpole|Walpole]] grew steadily more sceptical and lukewarm. At last it became clear that the essential Parliamentary grant would be not forthcoming",<ref>[[Geoffrey J. Warnock]], Introduction to: George Berkeley, ''A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge'', Open Court La Salle, 1986, p.&nbsp;9.</ref> and in 1732 he left America and returned to London.

He and Anne had four children who survived infancy{{snd}}Henry, George, William and Julia{{snd}}and at least two others who did not. William's death in 1751 was a great cause of grief for his father.