George Berkeley KB (1601 - 1658)

Born 7 Oct 1601 in Low Leyton, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Stanhope) Berkeley — married 13 Apr 1614 in St. Bartholomew the Great, London, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 10 Aug 1658 at age 56 in Clerkenwell, London, England.

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Lord George Berkeley was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

He was the son of Sir Thomas Berkeley and Hon. Elizabeth Carey,

He was born at Low Leyton, Essex, England.^[1]

He married on the 13th April 1614 at St. Batholomew's-the-Great, London, England. Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope and Anne Reade ^[1]

In 1617 he was a legatee in the will of his step grandmother Lady jane Berkeley. ^[2]

He died at St. John's, Clerkenwell, London, England on 10 August 1658 at age 56. ^[1]

Title

• 8th Lord Berkeley [E., 1421] on 26 November 1613, by writ.^[1]
• Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) on 4 November 1616. ^[1]

Inscription:
Here lyeth the body of GEORGE Lord BERKELEY, Baron of Berkeley, Mowbray, Seagrave, and Bruce, and Knight of the Bath, who departed this life the 10th day of August, A.D. 1658. He married ELIZABETH, second daughter and coheir of Sir MICHAEL STANHOPE of Sudbury in the county of Suffolk, Knt. by whom he had issue CHARLES, ELIZABETH, and GEORGE. CHARLES drowned in his passage to France, Jan. 27, 1641. ELIZABETH married to EDWARD COOK, Esq. grand child and heir to Sir EDWARD COOK, Knt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of both Benches. She died Novemb. the 9th, A.D. 1661, and lieth buried at Heigham in Norfolk; and GEORGE Lord BERKELEY now living: This deceased Lord, besides the nobility of his birth, and the experience he acquired by foreign travels, was very eminent for the great candour and ingenuity of his disposition, his singular bounty and affability towards his inferiours, and his readiness (had it been in his power) to have obliged all mankind.

Burial:
St Dunstan Church,
Cranford, London Borough of Hounslow, Greater London, England

Plot: Chancel

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 139
2. ↑ Will of Jane Berkeley: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 131
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 5111 #909590 (accessed 16 November 2022)
   Will of Dni Jane Berkley, granted probate on 10 Mar 1617. Died about 1617.

• Smyth, John, The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys... (Gloucester: J. Bellows, 1883-85.), 2:423-49

• Ligon, William D., The Ligon Family and Connections (New York: 1947.), p. 200

• Brydges, Egerton, Collins's Peerage of England (London: T. Bensley, 1812.), 3:416

• Wikipedia George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley (1601 – 10 August 1658)

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p2797.htm#i27963

• Find A Grave: Memorial #138460930