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Why did George Berkeley travel to Sicily with the earl of Peterborough?
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley, detail of an oil painting by John Smibert, c. 1732; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Berkeley traveled to Sicily in 1713β1714 to serve as a chaplain on an embassy led by Charles Mordaunt, the 3rd earl of Peterborough, whom Berkeley referred to as an "ambassador extraordinary."1