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Family and Education
bap. 1 Feb. 1607, 5th s. of Sir Maurice Berkeley† of Bruton, Som. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Killigrew† of Hanworth, Mdx.;B. Burke, A Genealogical Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages (1866), 46; CP. bro. of Sir Charles Berkeley*. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1623, BA 1625;Al. Ox. travelled (Low Countries, Germany) c.1626.Clarendon’s Four Portraits ed. R. Ollard (1989), 108. m. Christian (d. 1698), da. of Andrew Riccard*, wid. of John Gayer of Stoke Poges, Bucks. and Henry Rich, Lord Kensington (d. 1659), 3s.Burke, Genealogical Hist. 47. Kntd. 27 July 1639;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 207; CP ii. 148. cr. Baron Berkeley of Stratton 19 May 1658.CP ii. 148. d. 26 Aug. 1678.B.H. Johnson, Berkeley Square to Bond Street (1952), 49.
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Military: served with Sir Charles Morgan, Germany c.1627–8.Four Portraits, 108. Capt. of horse, royal army by 1639–1641; sjt.-maj. by 1641.Wit Restor’d (1658), 9. Maj.-gen. of horse (roy.), 1642;Bellum Civile, 12. commry.-gen. of horse, 1642.Clarendon, Hist. ii. 453. Gov. Exeter Sept. 1643-Apr. 1646.W. Cotton and H. Woollcombe, Gleanings from the Municipal and Cathedral Recs. …of Exeter (Exeter, 1877), 93. Col.-gen. Cornw. and Devon 23 Apr. 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 193; Mems. of Prince Rupert, ii. 411–12; Clarendon, Hist. iv. 47. Vol. French army, 1648.CCSP i. 428. Capt. regt. of horse and ft. Ireland 1662–72.HMC Ormonde, i. 242, 350, 352, ii. 201, 204; CSP Dom. 1671–2, p. 605; 1673, p. 431. Capt. of horse, 1667.Dalton, Army Lists, i. 76–7.

Court: gent. sewer to queen, 1637;Four Portraits, 109. cupbearer by 1639.Dorset RO, D/FSI Box 267, copies of official documents, 1660–4, unfol. Gov. duke of York, 1648 – 50, 1652–60.Clarendon, Hist. iv. 328, v. 164, 247; HMC Pepys, 219. Jt. housekpr. Nonsuch Palace 1660.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 430. PC, 1663.H.C. Tomlinson, Guns and Government (1979), 223.

Central: agent to Sweden, 1637.G.M. Bell, Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509–1688 (1990), 274. Extra commr. navy, 1660–5.J.M. Collinge, Navy Board Officials 1660–1832 (1978), 22, 86. Commr. royal fishing, 1661;Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485–1714, ed. R. Steele (Oxford, 1910), i. 400. ordnance, 1664–70;H.C. Tomlinson, Guns and Government (1979), 223. prizes, 1664-aft. 1666;CSP Dom. Add. 1660–85, pp. 119–20; CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 355. saltpetre, 1661.Steele, Tudor and Stuart Proclamations, i. 417. Jt. postmaster-gen. 1667–77.CSP Dom. 1667–8, p. 195; 1668, p. 285. Amb. extraordinary to France, 1675–6. Plenip. Nymwegen 1676–7.Bell, Handlist, 25, 122.

Civic: freeman, Exeter 1643; Dublin 1670.Cotton and Woollcombe, Gleanings, 93; CSP Ire. 1669–70, p. 195.

Local: j.p. Devon 25 Sept. 1643–?Doquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 74. Commr. oyer and terminer (roy.), 10 Oct. 1643; rebels’ estates (roy.), 14 Oct. 1643, 5 Jan., 12 Oct. 1644; impressment (roy.), 15 Dec. 1643; contributions (roy.), Exeter 30 Mar. 1644.Doquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 81, 112, 123, 175, 240. Lt. gen. militia, Suff. and Cambs. 1667.Dalton, Army Lists, i. 87.

Colonial: jt. treas. (roy.) Virg. 1649.HMC Pepys, 284, 302.

Irish: ld pres. Connaught 1662 – 66; jt. ld. pres. 1666–73.CSP Ire. 1660–2, pp. 481–2; 1666–9, pp. 22–3; CSP Dom. 1673, pp. 430–1. Gov. Galway 1661. Constable, Athlone Castle 1661.CSP Ire. 1660–2, pp. 481–2. Ld. lt. Ireland 1670–2.CSP Ire. 1669–70, pp. 70, 78–81, 332.

Parlimentarian
BERKELEY, Sir John (1607-78), of Bruton, Som.
: of Bruton, Som.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, C. Netscher, 1676;Berkeley Castle, Glos. oils, unknown.Berkeley Castle, Glos.

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Commons 1640-1660
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BERKELEY, Sir John (1607-78), of Bruton, Som.

Will
21 Jan. 1672, pr. 2 Oct. 1678.PROB11/358/67.
Estates
probably owned little land before 1660; later bought future site of Berkeley Square, London.
Oxford 1644
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