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Berkeley (surname)
Berkeley is a surname. It is also used, uncommonly, as a given name. The name is a habitation name from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, itself derived from Old English ''beorce léah'' meaning ''birch lea''. People with the name include: * The Berkeley family of England ** Baron Berkeley ** Berkeley baronets ** Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley, lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife ** Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Ormond, wife of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and daughter of the above ** Lady Henrietta Berkeley (born c. 1664, died 1706) * Anthony Berkeley Cox Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. Early life and education Anthony Berkeley Cox was born 5 Jul ... or Anthony Berkeley, writer * Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988), English actor * Busby Berkeley, film choreographer * Edmund Berkeley (1909-198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkeley (given Name)
Berkeley is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Berkeley Bell (1907–1967), American male tennis player * Berkeley Breathed (born 1957), American cartoonist * Berkeley L. Bunker (1906–1999), United States Senator and Representative from the state of Nevada * Berkeley Cole (1913–1996), Anglican priest and author * Berkeley Dallard (1889–1983), New Zealand accountant, senior public servant and prison administrator * Berkeley Gaskin (1908–1979), West Indian cricketer * Berkeley Guise (1775–1834), British landowner and Whig Member of Parliament * Berkeley Lent (1921–2007), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon * Berkeley Levett (1863–1941), Major in the Scots Guards and later a Gentleman Usher for the Royal family * Berkeley Deane Wise (1855–1909), Irish civil engineer See also *Berkeley (surname) *Berkeley (other) {{Given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Berkeley
George Berkeley (; 12 March 168514 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as " subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism. In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work, '' An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision'', in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour. This foreshadowed his chief philosophical work, ''A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology. Life Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Taking holy orders, he became incumbent of Apethorpe in 1837, and vicar of Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, in 1868. He acquired an enthusiastic love of cryptogamic botany (lichens) in his early years, and soon was recognized as the leading British authority on fungi and plant pathology. Christ's College made him an honorary fellow in 1883. He was well known as a systematist in mycology with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him, but his ''Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany'', published in 1857, and his papers on Vegetable Pathology in the ''Gardener's Chronicle'' in 1854 and onwards, show that he had a broad grasp of the whole domain of physiology and morphology as understood in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords. Early life Berkeley is the eldest of the three sons of Elizabeth Freda (née Bernstein) (1923–2016) and the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley. He was educated at The Oratory School, in Woodcote, and Westminster Cathedral Choir School. He was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral, and he frequently sang in works composed or conducted by his Godparent, godfather, Benjamin Britten. He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. He also played in a rock band, Seeds of Discord. In his twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, he concentrated on composition. Prizes and posts In 1977 he was awarded the Guinness Prize for Composition. In 1979, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra appointed Berkeley its associate composer. Berkeley was composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Berkeley
Matthew Anthony Berkeley (born 3 August 1987) is a footballer who plays as a forward. Born in England, he made two appearances for the Saint Kitts and Nevis national team in 2011. Club career Born in Manchester, Berkeley began his career with Gretna. He spent nine games on loan at Conference North side Workington in 2006. He made his debut for Workington on 4 February 2006. He scored his first goals of the loan period, netting a hat-trick against Northwich Victoria at Borough Park on 18 February. It was announced before Workington's trip to Northwich on 23 March that he would return to Gretna to help their Scottish Cup campaign. He finished his loan spell by scoring the opening goal of the game, although Workington eventually lost 4–1. He was released by Gretna in 2007. After his release, he joined Altrincham but was released in late September 2007 after only three games for the club. On 4 October 2007, he re-signed for Workington. He scored his first goals since returnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Perrot
Sir John Perrot (7 November 1528 – 3 November 1592) served as lord deputy to Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. It was formerly speculated that he was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII, though the idea is rejected by modern historians. Early life Perrot was born between 7 and 11 November 1528, probably at the family seat of Haroldston Manor near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire in Wales. He was the only son of Thomas Perrot (1504/5–1531) and Mary Berkeley (c.1511–c.1586), the daughter of James Berkeley (died c.1515) of Thornbury, Gloucestershire. He had two sisters: Jane, who married Sir John Philipps of Picton Castle; and Elizabeth, who married John Price of Gogerddan. Perrot resembled Henry VIII in temperament and physical appearance, and it was widely believed that he was the bastard son of the late King. The main source for this belief was Sir Robert Naunton (husband of Perrot's granddaughter, Penelope), who had never known Perrot and us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Berkeley (courtier)
Mary Andray Berkeley (married name Berkeley-Agyepong (born 3 October 1965) is a female retired English long jumper. Athletics career Berkeley represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics. She represented England and won a silver medal in the long jump event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later she England again at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Her personal best jump was , achieved in June 1989 in Basildon. She married Francis Agyepong Francis Keita Agyepong (born 16 June 1965, in London) is a male retired English triple jumper. Athletics career Agyepong won the silver medal in at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, and finished 7th at the 1995 IAAF World Indo ... (a former triple jumper) and became Mary Berkeley-Agyepong. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Berkeley
Mary Andray Berkeley (married name Berkeley-Agyepong (born 3 October 1965) is a female retired English long jumper. Athletics career Berkeley represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics. She represented England and won a silver medal in the long jump event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later she England again at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Her personal best jump was , achieved in June 1989 in Basildon. She married Francis Agyepong Francis Keita Agyepong (born 16 June 1965, in London) is a male retired English triple jumper. Athletics career Agyepong won the silver medal in at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, and finished 7th at the 1995 IAAF World Indo ... (a former triple jumper) and became Mary Berkeley-Agyepong. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Charles Harris, former British consul in Monaco, and Royal Navy Captain Hastings George FitzHardinge Berkeley (1855–1934), the illegitimate and eldest son of George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley, the 7th Earl of Berkeley (1827–1888). He attended the Dragon School in Oxford, going on to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk and St George's School in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. He studied French at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a fourth class degree in 1926. While at university he coxed the college rowing eight. He became an honorary fellow of Merton College in 1974. In 1927, he went to Paris to study music with Nadia Boulanger, and there became acquainted with Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger and Albert Rouss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley (born 1962) is a Dublin-born illustrator and children's author. Background He travelled widely in the 1980s, working freelance in London, Sydney and Hong Kong before returning to Dublin in 1992, where he formed a loose coalition known as Baggot Street Central with other leading Irish illustratorRoger O'Reilly and Angela Clarke. He has lived in Barcelona since 1997. Illustration His illustrations appear in high-profile publications worldwide, including ''Time (magazine), Time'', the ''Sunday Independent (Ireland), Sunday Independent'', ''Backbone'' and ''The Washington Post'', and regularly feature on the cover of ''The Economist''. His 2003 ''Economist'' cover on obesity has since been reproduced in over a dozen publications. Jon Berkeley's work typically features a stro ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley Of Stratton
Admiral John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1663 – 27 February 1697) was an English admiral, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family. Biography He was the second son of John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, and succeeded to the title on 6 March 1681, by the death of his elder brother Charles, a captain in the navy. On 14 December 1688, he was nominated rear-admiral of the fleet, under the command of Lord Dartmouth. In the following summer, he was vice-admiral of the red squadron under Admiral Herbert, and fought with him in the Battle of Bantry Bay (11 May 1689). On the death of Sir John Ashby, 12 July 1693, he was appointed admiral of the Blue in the fleet under the joint admirals Killigrew, Delavall, and Shovell. On 8 June 1694, Lord Berkeley was detached by Admiral Russell in command of a large division intended to cover the Attack on Brest by the land forces under General Talmash. Several concurring accounts had warned the French of the obj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley Of Stratton
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and rose to prominence, fortune, and fame. He and Sir George Carteret were the founders of the Province of New Jersey, a British colony in North America that would eventually become the U.S. state of New Jersey. Early life Berkeley was the second son of Sir Maurice Berkeley (died 1617) and his wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir William Killigrew (Chamberlain of the Exchequer) of Hanworth. His elder brother was Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge; his younger brother, Sir William Berkeley, served as royal governor of the colony of Virginia from 1642 to 1652 and again from 1660 to 1677. John Berkeley was accredited ambassador from Charles I of England to Christina of Sweden, in January 1637, to propose a joint effort by the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
