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Berfen, Ralph, ca. 1568-?
GB-2014-WSA-03127 · Person · ca. 1568-?

BERFEN, RALPH, son of John Berfen, Worcs.; b.; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050).

GB-2014-WSA-19283 · Person · 1876-1946

Berger, John Stephen, son of Major-General Ernest Archibald Berger, of Baling, by Margaret C., daughter of Thomas Brereton, of Nenagh, co. Tipperary; b. March 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (H); left July 1892; a mining engineer in S. America, and in Mines Dept., Federated Malay States, 1908-31; m. April 12, 1909, Violet Frances, daughter of Basil Grey, of Ceylon; d. Dec. 15, 1946.

Berkeley, Charles, 1679-1699
GB-2014-WSA-03128 · Person · 1679-1699

BERKELEY, CHARLES, VISCOUNT DURSLEY, eldest son of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley KB, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States of Holland, Lord Lieut. Gloucestershire, and Lady Elizabeth Noel, dau. of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden; b. 17 Jun 1679; adm. 1694; Matthew Prior (qv), in a letter dated The Hague 8 Jun 1694, commends Berkeley, who has “wit enough to answer to the great genius of the school” to Knipe’s care (HMC Bath MSS, iii, 22-3); d. unm. May 1699.

Berkeley, George, 1692-1746
GB-2014-WSA-03129 · Person · 1692-1746

BERKELEY, HON. GEORGE, brother of Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley (qv); b. 24 Feb 1691/2; adm.; QS (Capt., aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, scholar 15 May 1712, readm. nob. 10 Feb 1713; MA 1713; adm. Inner Temple 1 Aug 1707; Clerk of the Privy Council 1716-26; MP Dover 20 Dec 1720-34, Hedon 1734-41, and from 4 Mar 1742; Master, Hospital of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, London, from 28 May 1738; m. 1 Jul 1735 [or 26 Jun ?] Henrietta, widow of Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk, and sister of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); d. 29 Oct 1746. DNB.

Berkeley, John, ca. 1738-?
GB-2014-WSA-03130 · Person · ca. 1738-?

BERKELEY, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1747/8 (Burges'); left 1751. [Possibly John Berkeley, son of James Berkeley, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate 24 Jul 1737 (IGI) ]

GB-2014-WSA-03131 · Person · ca. 1743-1807

BERKELEY, JOSHUA, second son of Rev. Robert Berkeley DD, Treasurer and Vicar-General of Cloyne, and Anne Elizabeth Dawson; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1756; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jan 1760, Canoneer Student 4 Jan 1760 - 27 May 1783 (void, expiry year of grace as D. Tuam), Tutor 1767-79, Junior Censor 1771, Senior Censor 1772-3; BA 1763; MA 1766; BD 1776; DD 1780; Proctor 1774; adm. Middle Temple 2 Feb 1759; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1767, priest 28 May 1768 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1775; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1 May 1778; Dean of Tuam from 15 May 1782; d. unm. 21 Jun 1807.

GB-2014-WSA-03132 · Person · ca. 1611-1645

BERKELEY, MAURICE, son of Robert Berkeley, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1630, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1641; BA 1634; MA 1637; ordained; Rector of Seagrave, Leics., from 1639; dead by 22 Aug 1645.