Ancestral Trails 2016 » Frederick Augustus BERKELEY (-1810)

Personal data Frederick Augustus BERKELEY 

• He was born on March 24, 1744/45 in Mayfair, Westminster, Middlesex.Source 1
• Title: 5th Earl of Berkeley
• Title: Lord Lieutenant of Gloucester, Constable of St Briavels, Warden of th
• He died on August 10, 1810 in Berkeley, Stroud, Gloucestershire, he was 66 years old.Source 1
• He is buried in St Mary the Virgin, Berkeley, Gloucestershire.Source 1
• A child of Augustus BERKELEY and Elizabeth DRAX

Household of Frederick Augustus BERKELEY

He is married to Mary COLE.

They got married on May 16, 1796 at Lambeth Church, Surrey, he was 52 years old.

Child(ren):

1. George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1800-1881
2. Emily Elizabeth BERKELEY  ± 1785-1895 
3. Craven Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1805-1855
4. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1794-1870
5. Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1788-1867 
6. William Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1786-1857
7. Thomas Morton Fitzhardinge BERKELEY  1796-????

Notes about Frederick Augustus BERKELEY

Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley (1745-1810) was a British nobleman. Berkeley was the eldest son and heir of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Drax, of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire. He succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1755.

In 1766 Berkeley was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, High Steward of Gloucester, Constable of St Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean. He served as a colonel in the army in 1779 and 1794.

George W. E. Russell gives the following account of an adventure that Berkeley once had on the road: "He had always declared that any one might without disgrace be overcome by superior numbers, but that he would never surrender to a single highwayman. As he was crossing Hounslow Heath one night, on his way from Berkeley Castle to London, his travelling carriage was stopped by a man on horseback, who put his head in at the window and said, ‘I believe you are Lord Berkeley?’ ‘I am.’ ‘I believe you have always boasted that you would never surrender to a single highwayman?’ ‘I have.’ ‘Well,’ presenting a pistol, ‘I am a single highwayman, and I say, “Your money or your life.”’ ‘You cowardly dog,’ said Lord Berkeley, ‘do you think I can’t see your confederate skulking behind you?’ The highwayman, who was really alone, looked hurriedly around, and Lord Berkeley shot him through the head."

Family
Berkeley married Mary Cole (who also passed under the name of Tudor), the daughter of a local publican and butcher. After his death, she asserted that the marriage had taken place on 30 March 1785, but the earliest ceremony of which there is incontrovertible proof was a wedding in Lambeth Church, Surrey, on 16 May 1796.

He settled Berkeley Castle upon their eldest son, William Fitz Hardinge Berkeley, but William’s attempt to assume his father’s honours were disallowed by the House of Lords. It appears that Berkeley’s titles devolved as a matter of law upon his fifth son, Thomas Morton Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1796-1882), but were never used by him.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Berkeley,_5th_Earl_of_Berkeley

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