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BERKELEY, NORBORNE, 4TH BARON BOTETOURT, only son of John Symes Berkeley, Stoke Gifford, Gloucs., and his second wife Elizabeth, widow of Edward Devereux, 8th Viscount Hereford, and dau. of Walter Norborne, Calne, Wilts.; b.; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1726; left 1727; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1735-8; succeeded father 1736; of Stoke Gifford, Gloucs.; member, Society of Dilettanti 1739; MP Gloucestershire 1741- Apr 1763; DCL Oxford 12 Apr 1749; a Groom of the Bedchamber 11 Dec 1760- Apr 1764; Lord Lieut., Gloucestershire, 4 Jun 1762- 5 Jul 1766; summoned 4th Baron Botetourt 13 Apr 1764; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 6 Nov. 1767; Governor of Virginia from 1768; d. unm. during his residence there 15 Oct 1770 (M. I. Stoke Gifford, Gloucs. ).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.