BERKELEY, George (c. 1627-98) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1627, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of George Berkeley^†, 8th Bar. Berkeley and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury, Suff. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 1640. m. 11 Aug. 1646, Elizabeth (d.1708), da. and coh. of John Masingberd (Massingberd) of London, merchant, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (1 d.v.p.). KB 1661. Glos. Archives, MF 1161, Berkeley Castle mss, select letters vol. 2, 91. d. 14 Oct. 1698; will 20 Sept. 1698, pr. 19 Dec. 1698. TNA, PROB 11/448.

Offices Held

PC 1678 – 79, 1685 – 89.

Custos rot. Glos. 1660 – 89, Surr. 1675 – 89, 1689 – d.; kpr. Nonsuch palace 1660–?d.; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 359; Morgan Lib. Rulers of England box 9, no. 30. freeman, Gloucester 1674. Gloucester Freemen, (Glos. Rec. Ser. iv), 30.

Mbr. cttee. E.I. Co. 1660 – d.; FRS 1663; mbr. Royal African Co. 1663 – 88, asst. 1674 – 76, 1679 – 81, 1684 – 86; gov. Levant Co. 1673 – 96; mbr. Soc. of Merchant Adventurers 1674; Glos. Archives, MF 1315, Berkeley Castle mss, select chs. 876. elder bro. Trinity House 1680 – d., master 1680–1; Evelyn Diary, iv. 248; Earl of Berkeley’s Speech to the Corporation of Trinity House (1681). stockholder, Hudson’s Bay Co. 1680 – 85; asst. Skinners’ Co. 1685–?d.; gov. Charterhouse 1687–?d. CSP Dom. 1686–7, p. 345; Glos. RO, MF 1315, Berkeley Castle mss, select chs. 882.

Parlimentarian

BERKELEY, George (c. 1627-98)

Associated with: Berkeley Castle, Glos.; St John Jerusalem, Clerkenwell;W.J. Pinks, Hist. Clerkenwell, 280.; Berkeley House, Westminster;Pepys Diary, vi. 39.; Cranford, Mdx. and Durdens, Surr.Evelyn Diary, iii. 15n.;

Likenesses

line engraving by David Loggan, NPG D21578.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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