Thomas Berkeley

Sir Thomas Berkeley (11 July 1575 – 22 November 1611) was the son and heir apparent of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, and a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1604 until 1611.

Family[]

Thomas Berkeley was the son of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (d. 26 November 1613), by his first wife, Katherine Howard (d. 7 April 1596), third daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Frances de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell.^[1]

Career[]

Berkeley matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 27 June 1590 at the age of 14. On 2 February 1589 he entered Gray's Inn. He was created a Knight of the Bath on 25 July 1603 at the coronation of King James I.^[2] In 1604 he was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire.^[3]

Berkeley died on 22 November 1611 at the age of 37.^[3]

Marriage and issue[]

Berkeley married Elizabeth Carey, daughter and sole heir of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon,^[3] and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer, by whom he had an only son, George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, baptized 26 October 1601 at Low Leyton, Essex.^[4]

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References[]

• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. Vol. II. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 138–40.
• Williams, W.R. (1898). The Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester. London: Jakeman and Carver. p. 49. Retrieved 19 March 2013.