George Berkeley (general)

General Sir George Henry Frederick Berkeley KCB (9 July 1785 – 25 September 1857) was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

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Background

Berkeley was the eldest son of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley, third son of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley. His mother was Lady Emilia Charlotte, daughter of Lord George Lennox.

Military career

Berkeley was a Colonel of the 35th Regiment and a General in the British Army. 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.[1]

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.

Notes

  1. ^ Peter Hofschröer. Did the Duke of Wellington deceive his Prussian Allies in the Campaign of 1815?, p. 2, website of A. W. Cockerill, Retrieved 18 October 2009)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Tufnell
Sir John Romilly
Member of Parliament for Devonport
1852–1857
With: Henry Tufnell 1852–1854
Sir Thomas Erskine Perry 1854–1857
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Erskine Perry
James Wilson
Military offices
Preceded by
Charles Richard Fox
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
1852–1853
Succeeded by
Hon. Lauderdale Maule