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Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818) was a Royal Navy officer. An admiral, he was highly popular yet controversial in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley. 1753-1818. He was born on 10 August 1753, the second surviving son of Augustus, the 4th Earl of Berkeley, and of his wife Elizabeth Drax. He was the grandson of a previous First Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral James Berkeley, and the cousin of both Admiral Viscount Keppel and Captain George Keppel.
BERKELEY, Hon. George Cranfield (1753-1818), of Wood End, nr. Chichester, Suss. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986. Available from Boydell and Brewer. Constituency. Dates. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 28 Apr. 1783 - Apr. 1810. Family and Education.
BERKELEY, Sir GEORGE CRANFIELD, naval officer; b. 10 Aug. 1753, third son of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth Drax; m. 23 Aug. 1784 Emilia Charlotte Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox , and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 25 Feb. 1818 in London, England.
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GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON; Edited by James Stanier Clarke, John McArthur; Book: The Naval Chronicle; Online publication: 10 January 2011; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511731648.003
Series VIII: Letters from Wellington, 1809-1811. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley papers, MS 011. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas. https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/3114 Accessed March 17, 2024.
George Cranfield Berkeley (1753-1818) served in the British Navy from 1766 to 1812. In 1799 he was appointed Rear-Admiral and in 1805 he became a Vice-Admiral. In December 1808 he was appointed to the chief command on the coast of Portugal and in the Tagus, which he held until May 1812.
