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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) ]

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.

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.

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. ).

Berkinshaw-Smith, Bernard Cyril, son of Cyril John Berkinshaw-Smith, bank man., of Surbiton, and Germaine, d. of Pierre Gode, farmer, of Corrèze, France; b. 1 May 1929; adm. Sept. 1942 (KS); left July 1947; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1956; a chartered accountant, ACA 1956, FCA 1962; partner Fuller Jenks Beecroft 1961-85, Touche Ross & Co. 1985-8; retd. 1988; m. 3 Apr. 1956 Eva Marianna Inez Nohel MB BCh, med. practitioner, d. of Eugene Nohel, co. sec.; d. 22 Sept. 2005.

BERKLEY, ---; adm. Nov 1663; a boarder; “Mr. Berkley” paid £40 a year (Busby’s Account Book). [Perhaps a son of George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Massingberd, Treasurer EI Company : but not their eldest son, Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, who had already matr. at Christ Church, Oxford 3 May 1662] [Maybe therefore their second son, Hon. George Berkeley, Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 17 Sep 1667, migr. to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, MA 9 Jul 1669, adm. Middle Temple Nov 1667, ordained, Rector of Cranford, Middlesex 1686, Prebendary of Westminster from 13 Jul 1687, d. 1694]

Berman, Humphrey David, son of Emil Berman, stockbroker, and Frida Pauline, d. of Pius Lewenz of Nottingham; b. 2 Nov. 1903; adm. Sept. 1917 (KS); left Aug. 1922; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1922, BA 1925, MA 1937; Lond. Stock Exchange 1934; Lincolnshire Regt 1939-40 (Capt.); Pioneer Corps 1941, invalided 1942; Admiralty (Secretariat) 1942-6; partner John Stone & Co. 1954 (now Seligmann, Harris & Co.); lecturer and author of works on Stock Exchange law and practice; examiner on SE subjects for Roy. Soc. of Arts; m. 24 Feb. 1940 Eliz­abeth May, d. of John Baillie Noble, wine merchant, of Inverness; d. 1 Sep. 1994

BERMINGHAM, GEORGE RITCHIE, son of George Bermingham FRCS, Kentish Town Road, London, and Payhembury, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, and Charlotte --- (IGI); b. 27 Jul 1846; adm. 26 Sep 1861 (James'); left Christmas 1862; m.

Bernacchi, Brook Anthony, son of Lieut.-Cdr Louis Charles Bernacchi OBE RNVR, Polar explorer, and Winifred Edith, d. of Alfred Hellier Harris, farmer, of Donnington, Sussex; b. 3 Jan. 1922; adm. Sept. 1935 (A); left July 1939; RM 1941-46 (Maj.), serving in Egypt and Far East; seconded Army Legal Service Oct. 1945; called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in absentia 1943; adm. to practise as barrister in Hong Kong 1946; JP (Hong Kong) 1957; QC 1960; OBE 1965; chairman Reform Club of Hong Kong 1951-; member of several local govt authorities in Hong Kong 1952-, with special responsibility for the theatre and the arts; Worshipful Company of Arbitrators 1987, FCIArb; m. 8 Apr. 1970 Patricia Sheelagh Heath MChS SRCh, d. of Maj. Horace Godfrey Heath, Police Superintendent (Control Commission); d. 22 Sep 1996.