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The expansive grounds, today in Mayfair in Central London, are commemorated by the street names Bruton Street, Bruton Place, Bruton Lane, Stratton Street, Berkeley Street and Berkeley Square. It was renamed Devonshire House after its purchase in 1697 by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , and burned down in 1733 when replaced by a ...
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 .
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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 ...
John A. Camera, a former Seaside Heights councilman who served as administrator in both Seaside Heights and Berkeley, passed away June 13.
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).