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BERKELEY. 341 BERKELEY OF STEATTON. Barony. 1. John Berkeley, Sth ami yst. &(*) of Sir Maurice B. I 1G58. of 5 r "*W>i co - Spnwrset, by Elizabeth, da. pf Sir Henry Kii.ugrew of Hanworth, Midx. m at Hanworth, 1 Feb. 1600/7 and matric. at Oxford (Queen's Coll.) 14 Feb. 1622/3. Being a Commander in the Army against the Scots, he was Knighted by the King at Berwick, 27 July 1633. During the rebel- lion he was one of the most eminent officers of the Royal party ; in 1042 (as Com- missary Gen.) he secured nearly the whole of Cornwall ; and being in joint command with Sir Ralph Koptou {subsei/mntli/ he was Gen. of all the Royal forces in Devon) he won divers battles against the insurgents at Iirailock, Saltash, Launceston, Stratton and at Modbury, investing and reducing Kxoter of which he was made Governor, which ollice he hidd during the time of the Queen's giving birth there to the Princess Henrietta Maria. This city he afterwards (13 April 1645) was forced to surrender, on honorable terms, to Fairfax. He attended the King in his ill fated journey to the Isle of Wight. During his exile he was, in 1052, made Comptroller of the Duke of York's household. By patent dat. at Brussels 1!) .May 1053 he was <r. BAltOX BKKKELET OF STRATTON co. Cornwall, in allusion to his victory over the insur- gents at that place. P.O. 1001. Loan Lieut. <W Ireland 1009-1072. Ambassador to France, 1075. He w. Christian, relict of John Glum; and widow of Henry RlCK, styled Lord Kensington, (who d. April 1659), da. and h. of Sir Andrew RlCCABD of St. Olave's Hart Street, London, (President of the East Indian Company), by Katharine his wife. He d. at Twickenham 2S Aug. 1078, aged 71 and was bar. there 5 Sep. Will dat. 21 Jan. 1072, pr. 2 Oct. 1078. His widow who was bap. 19 March 1038/9 at St. Olave's afsd., was Inn: 1 Sep. 109S at Twickenham. IL 1G7S. ChaM.ES (Berkeley), IjAIujx Berkeley of Strattox, s. and h. b. 18 June 1002. Capt. of the Tiger" man of war. He tl. at sea, iniiu. in his 21st year. Burial rcg. 28 Aug. 1G82 at St. Mary Aldermaubury, London, and also 21 Sep. 10S2 at Twickenham. Admoii. 11 April 1684 granted tu his mother. " Berkeley, 1st son of the alleged marriage of 17S5. BR Baron Segrave 1831, and Karl Fitz Ilardinge, 1841. He d. uum. 1857. A L. Maurice P. P. Berke- ley, 2nd son of the alleged marriage of 1785. cr. Baron Fitz Hardinge 1S01 : (/. 1867. T 1 , t Thomas Moretou P. Craven Berkeley who as 1st F. Ber- s. of tiie undoubted keley, marriage of 1796 was yst.s.</. apparently entitled to s.p.ui. be Earl of Berke- 1S55. ley, &c. He d. unm. =j= 1882 aged 87. Sir George H. P. Berke- ley, K.C.B. d. 1857. T Francis W P. (Berkeley!, Baron Fitz Hardinge. 4. 1S20 ; living s.p. 1SS6. Charles P. P. Berkelev, 2nd and yst. s. b. 1 830 ; living s.p. 1886. t Louisa Mary, only da. and h. who (as h. yen. of her grandfather) was in 1882, apparently entitled to the Dignity of Baroness De Berkeley. Living 1SS0. George L. P. Berkeley, who in 18S2 was apparently en- titled (as h. mile of his great- grandfather) to be Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley. Living 1SS6. X ( :l ) Charles Berkeley, the 1st s. of this Sir Maurice, became in 1665 (by succes- sion to his own son the Earl of Falmouth) Viscount Fitz Hardinge [1]. See tabular pral. of this branch of the family (a cadet line of the Bevkeleya of Stoke, co. Gloucestcv) infra, under " Botktouht." t See previous page.