George Monck Berkeley

George Monck Berkeley (8 February 1763 – 26 January 1793) was an English playwright and author, now remembered as a biographer of Jonathan Swift.

While in Dublin, Berkeley found Richard Brenan, the servant who attended Jonathan Swift in his last days.

His next drama was Love and Nature,' a musical piece in one act written in blank verse, performed 1789 in Dublin, and published in 1797.

The contents are:[1] The biography of Swift contains the story of his marriage by St George Ashe to Esther Johnson, his "Stella".

[8] Moving in High Church circles, Berkeley was a correspondent of George Horne, and his mother's edition of his poems defended Dean John Lynch.

[9][10] He was involved in an intrigue of his father and George Gleig against Abernethy Drummond, publishing an anonymous pamphlet to Episcopalian Scots.