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 96 BERMINGHAM. frequently attributed to him, but certainly was not his composition. "The Works of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne, to which is added an account of his life, and several letters," &c. were published in vols. 4to.n 1784. HON BLE. JOHN BERMINGHAM Was the second son of Francis, Lord of Athunry, in the kingdom of Ireland, being the twenty-first who held the rank of baron in descent from Pierce de Bermingham, summoned to parliament by the title already stated, in the reign of King Henry His mother was the Lady Mary Nugent, eldest daughter of Thomas, Earl of West meath. The year of his birth we have not been informed of, nor are we in possession of any particulars of the early part of his life. Being bred to the sea service, he was appointed lieu- tenant of the Romney; from which he was afterwards removed to the Phoenix. In the beginning of the year 1745 he commanded the Falcon sloop of war; in which he captured, in the month of February, close in with Dunkirk, a French privateer, of eight guns, called the Union; as he did a second, of the same force, in the month of March. On the 14th of May following, he was promoted to be captain of the Glasgow frigate. He died, according to Mr. Hardy's account, on the 8th of May, 1746; but, in Lodge's Irish Peerage, he is said to have been killed somewhat earlier, in an engagement with a French privateer.This assertion is in some degree ex- plained by the following extract of a letter from New- castle, dated May the 1Sth, 1745. " His majesty's ship the Falcon, the honourable John Bermingbam commander, of fourteen six-pounders, and abeut seventy men, fell in last Tuesday, off Flamborough