In 1713, he moved to London, where he made friends with the city's intellectuals, including Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. In 1721, he published An Essay Towards Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain. He began to plan and solicit support for a college in Bermuda. In 1728, he sailed for America with his new wife, Anne, and purchased 100 acres of land near Newport, Rhode Island. At this time, Berkeley wrote Alciphron, a philosophical defense of Christianity. By 1732, the anticipated funds from England had not arrived, and Berkeley, disappointed, returned to London. In 1734, he was appointed bishop of Cloyne and returned to Ireland to live in his diocese for 18 years. In 1744, he published Siris, which promoted the medical use of tar water, made by boiling in water the tar from pine trees. Berkeley had seven children, three of whom died in infancy, and his
eldest son survived only to age 14.
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