General Sir George Henry Frederick Berkeley KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (9 July 1785 – 25 September 1857) was a British soldier and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Background

Berkeley was the eldest son of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley

George Cranfield-Berkeley

Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB , often known as George Berkeley, was a highly experienced, popular, yet controversial naval officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain...

, third son of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley

Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley

Lt.-Col. Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley KT was the son of Vice-Admiral James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley and Lady Louisa Lennox....

. His mother was Lady Emilia Charlotte, daughter of Lord George Lennox

Lord George Lennox

General Lord George Henry Lennox was the second son of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and was thus descended from King Charles II of England. He was a brother of the famous Lennox sisters.-Military career:...

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Military career

Berkeley was a Colonel of the 35th Regiment and a General in the British Army

British Army

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. At the start of the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, he was the Duke of Wellington's liaison officer at the Prince of Orange's headquarters.

Political career

Berkeley was returned to Parliament for Devonport in 1852, a seat he held until 1857.

Family

Berkeley married Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Sutton, 1st Baronet, in 1815. They had three sons and one daughter. His third son, George, succeeded as seventh Earl of Berkeley in 1882. Berkeley died in September 1857, aged 72. Lady Berkeley died in February 1870.

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