Notes 



after a short stay in Boston, in September, 1 73 1 , set sail 

 for home. Three years after his return to England he 

 became bishop of Cloyne. He died in 1753 at the age 

 of sixty-nine. 



Note XVIII. 



John Smibert, who was to have been professor of fine 

 arts in Berkeley's projected college, was born in Edin- 

 burgh in 1684, studied painting in London, and then passed 

 some years in Italy. Returning to England he became a 

 portrait painter in London, and, in 1729, came to America 

 with Berkeley. He painted for some months in Newport, 

 and when the Bermuda enterprise was abandoned settled 

 in Boston. When Berkeley became bishop of Cloyne, he 

 asked Smibert to join him in Ireland, but the painter, who 

 in the meantime had married a wealthy widow, declined 

 his patron's invitation, and dwelt in Boston, prosperous 

 and contented until his death in 1 75 1 . Smibert's most 

 important American work is the painting of Berkeley and 

 his family, executed in Boston in the summer of 1 73 1 , and 

 presented to Yale College in 1808. 



Note XIX. 



A native of Sussex, England, and born in 1693, William 

 Shirley at the age of forty-one settled in Boston in the 

 practice of his profession — the law. He served as gov- 

 ernor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1745, and in the 

 latter year planned the successful expedition against Cape 

 Breton. He was in England from 1745 to 1753, but then 

 returned to Massachusetts as governor, and at the opening 

 of the French war in 1755 was commander-in-chief of the 

 British forces in North America. He was made lieutenant- 



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