Brigadier-General Henry Berkeley (after 1682 – 23 May 1736) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the

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from 1720 to 1734. Berkeley was the third son of

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and his wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of

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. He served as a

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, and afterwards to Queen Anne. He obtained a commission in the Army in December 1709, rising to be a Brigadier-General in the

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in 1735. He married, in 1712, Mary Cornewall, daughter of Col. Henry Cornewall, MP of Moccas, Herefordshire' In June 1717 Berkeley was appointed first commissioner for executing the office of

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to King George I, and on 25 December following he was appointed to the colonelcy of the King's Own Regiment of Foot, from which he was removed in 1719 to the Scots Troop of

, a position he held until his death. He was also one of the King's equerries. Berkeley was returned unopposed as a Whig

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for

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at a by-election on 30 March 1720. He was re-elected in a contest at the 1722 general election and returned unopposed at the 1727 general election. All his recorded votes were for the Government. He did not stand in the 1734 general election. Berkeley died at Bath on 23 May 1736. He and his wife had two sons and three daughters.

References

* Richard Cannon,
Historical Record of the Fourth, or the King's Own Regiment of Foot
' (1839) p. 147. * Shirley Matthews
BERKELEY, Hon. Henry (aft.1682-1736), of Berkeley Castle, Glos.
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