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John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, holding his baton of office. John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) of Berkeley House in Westminster and of Twickenham Park in Middlesex, was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family.
Lord Berkeley of Stratton was married but had no children. He died at a family home, Bruton Abbey, Somerset, in April 1773, aged 75, when the barony became extinct.He devised his grand estates which included Berkeley Square in London, to his kinsman the Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley, [1] his own branch descended in the male line from a Baron Berkeley who died in 1326, with ...
Lord Berkeley (right), together with Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington in a group portrait by Godfrey Kneller. Admiral John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1663 – 27 February 1697) was an English admiral, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family.
A difference of Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1658 for John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, a Royalist during the Civil War who had distinguished himself at the ...
In 1664, James, Duke of York (later King James II) divided New Jersey, granting a portion to two men, Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, who supported the monarchy's cause during the English Civil War (1642–49) and Interregnum (1649–60).
New Jersey has been governed under the authority of several constitutional documents. As a colony, the first, the Concession and Agreement (1665), was written by the colony's Lords Proprietors, Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, which offered broad provisions for
2nd Baron Berkeley of Stratton: John Berkeley 1663–1697 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton: William Berkeley d. 1741 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton: James Berkeley after 1679–1736 3rd Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley, 11th Baron Berkeley: John Berkeley 1697–1773 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton: Barony Berkeley of Stratton extinct, 1773 ...
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602–1678) was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat. John Berkeley may also refer to: John Berkeley (1531–1582), MP for Hampshire 1566–1571; John Berkeley (died 1428) (1352–1428), MP for Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire