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Authorised form of nameBerkeley; Charles (1649 - 1710); 2nd Earl of Berkeley; nobleman and diplomat
Dates1649 - 1710
NationalityBritish
Date of birth8 April 1649
Place of deathBerkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, Europe
Date of death24 September 1710
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, Europe
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge (MA 1663); Christ Church, Oxford (MA 1663)
Career:
Travelled abroad (1664-1667); Guidon and Major in the King's Own Troop of Guards (1679), Lieutenant-Colonel (1681); Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1675); member of the Committee of the Levant Company (1678) and the Honourable East India Company (1699-1705); MP for Gloucester (1679-1681); Envoy to Madrid (1689); Envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the States of Holland (1689-1695); Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire (1689-1710), Surrey (1699-1710); Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (1694-1710), Surrey (1702-1710); Constable of St Briavel's Castle and Warden of the Forest of Dean (1697-1710); one of the Lords Justices and Governors of Ireland (1699-1700)
Honours:
KB 1661; Baron Berkeley (1689)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/11/1667
Age at election18
ProposerJohn Wilkins
Date of ejection or withdrawal22 July 1685
Other Royal Society activityExpelled due to non-payment of arrears
RelationshipsParents: George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley (FRS 1663), and Elizabeth Massingberd; stylised of Viscount Dursley (1679-1698); succeeded his father as Earl Berkeley (1698)
Married: Elizabeth Noel
Children: seven overall, including James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
OtherInfoAs a member of parliament, Berkeley was moderately active in the early 1680s during the second Exclusion Parliament. He opposed rule by James II and supported the government after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Berkeley was a committee member for the Honorable East India Company (HEIC), an English and later British company formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent (and briefly Afghanistan) and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn; DNB; Foster; GEC; Hunter; Dalton; Henning
Notes:
In DNB under Berkeley, Family of. Birth date from MN
CodeNA8275
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