BERKELEY, FRANCIS HENRY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 7 Dec. 1794; gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1814; M.P. for Bristol 22 July 1837 to death; leader in House of Commons of the ballot question 8 Aug. 1848 to death, the ballot bill was passed 13 July 1872; chief opponent of the Temperance cause in House of Commons, presented by the licensed victuallers with a testimonial of £1,050 at Bristol 24 Sep. 1856. _d._ 1 Victoria sq. Pimlico London 10 March 1870. _Burn’s Temperance dictionary_ (1861) 300–303; _Illust. News of the world iii_, 84 (1859), _portrait_. BERKELEY, GEORGE CHARLES GRANTLEY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cranford house, Hounslow 10 Feb. 1800; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream Guards 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; heir presumptive to Earldom of Berkeley 1810 to death; kept a pack of stag hounds at Cranford 1824–29 and at Harrold hall Beds. from 1829; M.P. for West Gloucs. 24 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; fought a duel with Wm. Maginn editor of _Fraser’s Mag._ in a field near the Harrow road 5 Aug. 1836 when Maginn was slightly wounded; author of _Berkeley Castle an historical romance 3 vols._ 1836; _Sandron Hall or the days of Queen Anne 3 vols._ 1840; _Reminiscences of a huntsman_ 1854; _Love and the lion, a poem_ 1857; _The English sportsman in the western prairies_ 1861; he is depicted in C. J. Collins’s novel _Sackville Chase 3 vols._ 1863; he was the last person who wore the flat cocked hat known as the chapeau bras. _d._ Longfleet, Poole 23 Feb. 1881. _My life and recollections by G. C. G. F. Berkeley 4 vols._ 1865–66, _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. xiv_, 242–7 (1836), _xv_, 100–143 (1837); _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 253 (1881), _portrait_. BERKELEY, SIR GEORGE HENRY FREDERICK (_elder son of Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, G.C.B. 1753–1818_). _b._ 9 July 1785; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Jany. 1802; captain 3 Foot guards 22 Feb. 1821 to 16 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 81 Foot 15 Jany. 1844 and of 35 Foot 11 July 1845 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 28 June to Dec. 1852; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Devonport 7 July 1852 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 25 Sep. 1857. BERKELEY, ROBERT JAMES. Called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. _d._ 6 Trafalgar terrace, Monkstown, Ireland 31 Oct. 1873. BERKELEY, SACKVILLE HAMILTON. Ensign 16 Foot 1 May 1800, captain 25 Dec. 1804 to 26 Feb. 1824 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in West Indies 20 June 1811 to 15 March 1827; col. of 75 Foot 16 Sep. 1845 and of 16 Foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 4 York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 12 Feb. 1863.