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Published on December 31, 2023by Robert Van Ness Leave a comment. A number of key issues followed Governor Berkeley back into Virginia after his 1662 visit to England. He was to enforce the Navigation Acts, build new towns, and enact new taxes. Arguably, however, an issue had been brewing in the Old Dominion for some time before he returned to ...
Sir William Berkeley, the longest-serving governor of Virginia (1641–1652, 1660–1677), is the subject of this oil painting by Harriotte L. T. Montague. This work was based on a painting executed in England by Sir Peter Lely, a prominent portraitist in the seventeenth-century court. Read more about: Sir William Berkeley
William Berkeley (1605–1677) was the longest-serving royal governor of Virginia. He served as a Crown governor (an appointee of the King) between 1642 until 1652 and again from 1660 until his death in 1677. In his late twenties, Berkeley was a part of an exclusive literary circle that orbited the royal family, writing several plays and ...
Hace 5 días · William R. Berkley founded insurance firm W.R. Berkley with only $2,500 in 1967 while he was getting his MBA from Harvard. His company, which went public in 1974, insures everything from mobile ...
June of 1676 was eventful in the course of Bacon’s Rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon had become so popular that he was unanimously elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. Despite being a rebel, he arrived at Jamestown in June to attend the meeting of the assembly. Governor Berkeley publicly pardoned him for his rebellion and Bacon was even ...
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Berkeley was a true “cavalier”, a junior member of the British aristocracy, with a heritage that extended to William the Conqueror. In England, the Berkeley family had their ancestral seat at Berkeley Castle built in the 1200’s; “the Berkeleys’ were among the richest and strongest families in England.
