Sir Thomas Berkeley,
KB (11 July 1575 – 22 November 1611) was the son and heir apparent of
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, KB (26 November 1534 – 26 November 1613) was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.
Fam ...
, and a
Member of Parliament
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for
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
from 1604 until 1611.
Family
Thomas Berkeley was the son of
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, KB (26 November 1534 – 26 November 1613) was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.
Fam ...
(d. 26 November 1613), by his first wife, Katherine Howard (d. 7 April 1596), third daughter of
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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, and
Frances de Vere
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, daughter of
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
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Career
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, and
Elizabeth Trussell.
Career
Berkeley
matriculated
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at
Magdalen College, Oxford
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, on 27 June 1590 at the age of 14. On 2 February 1589 he entered
Gray's Inn
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. He was created a
Knight of the Bath
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on 25 July 1603 at the coronation of King
James I James I may refer to:
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*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
*James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
*James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
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. In 1604 he was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
.
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Berkeley died on 22 November 1611 at the age of 37.
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Marriage and issue
Berkeley married Elizabeth Carey, daughter and sole heir of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon,[ and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer:
*Theophila, born at her maternal grandparents' house at ]Blackfriars, London
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Blackfriars Priory
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, 11 December 1596. She married Robert, eldest surviving son of Edward Coke
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.
*George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley
George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, KB (1601 – 10 August 1658) was a seventeenth-century English nobleman and a prominent patron of literature in his generation.
Family
George Berkeley, baptized 26 October 1601 at Low Leyton, Essex, was the on ...
, baptized 26 October 1601 at Low Leyton
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, Essex
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.[.]
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1575 births
1611 deaths
English MPs 1604–1611
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Members of Gray's Inn
People from Gloucestershire
16th-century English people
Thomas
Thomas may refer to:
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* Thomas (name)
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* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
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Heirs apparent who never acceded
Eldest sons of British hereditary barons