Bishop George Berkeley (1685 - 1753).
Bishop George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher and Anglican
bishop who is best known for his theory of "immaterialism," which
argues that only minds and their ideas exist. He criticized the foundations of
calculus and proposed a new theory of vision. Berkeley died in Oxford, England,
in 1753.
The Monument is inscribed -
GRAVISSIMO PRAESULI GEORGIO EPISCOPO CLONENSI. VIRO Seu
Ingennii et Eruditionis laudem Seu Probitatis et Beneficentiae Spectemus, Inter
primos omnium artatum numerando, Si Amans partriae. Viroque nominee gloriari
potes BERKLEIVM vixiffe. Obiit Annum agens Septuagefimum tertium Natus Anno
Chrifti MDCLXXLX ANNA conjux L.M.P
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Monument to Henry Aldrich (1648 - 1710).
The Portrait Relief within the rondel is inscribed underneath H Cheere Fecit.
Dated 1732.
Aldrich was educated at Westminster School under Dr Richard Busby. In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent. In 1692, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford until 1695.
In 1702, he was appointed Rector of Wem in Shropshire, but continued to reside at Oxford, where he died on 14 December 1710. He was buried in Christ Church Cathedral without any memorial, at his own request.
The medallion portrait memorial was erected to his memory in 1732.