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BERKELEY , a See also:market See also:town of See also:Gloucestershire, See also:England, near the See also:river See also:Severn, in that portion of its valley Lnown as the Vale of Berkeley, on a See also:branch from the Midland railway. Pop. (1901) 774. It is pleasantly situated on a See also:gentle See also:eminence, in a See also:rich See also:pastoral vale to which it gives name, celebrated for its dairies, producing the famous See also:cheese known as " See also:double See also:Gloucester." The town has a handsome See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church (See also:Early See also:English and Decorated), a See also:grammar school, and some See also:trade in See also:coal, See also:timber, See also:malt and cheese. Berkeley was the birthplace of Dr See also:Edward See also:Jenner (1749), who is buried in the church. Berkeley See also:Castle, on an eminence See also:south-See also:east of the town, is one of the noblest baronial castles existing in England, and one of the few inhabited. The Berkeley See also:Ship See also:Canal connects Gloucester with docks at Sharpness, avoiding the difficult See also:navigation of the upper See also:part of the Severn See also:estuary.
The See also:manor of Berkeley gives its name to the See also:noble See also:family of Berkeley (q.v.). According to tradition, a nunnery to which the manor belonged existed here before the See also:Conquest, and See also:Earl See also:Godwin, by bringing about its See also:dissolution, obtained the manor. All that is certainly known, however, is that in Domesday the manor is assigned to one See also:Roger, who took his surname from it. His descendants seem to have been ousted from their possessions during the 12th See also:century by See also:Robert fitz See also:Harding, an Angevin See also:partisan, who already held the castle when, in 1153, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, See also:duke of See also:Normandy (who became See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Henry II. in the following See also:year), granted him the manor. Under an agreement made in the same year, See also:Maurice, son of Robert fitz Harding, married a daughter
of Roger of Berkeley. Their descendants styled themselves of Berkeley, and in 1200 the town was confirmed to Robert of Berkeley with See also:toll, See also:soc, See also:sac, &c., and a market on whatever See also:day of the See also:week he See also:chose to hold it. This See also:charter was See also:con-firmed to See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, See also:Lord Berkeley, in 1330, and in 1395–1396 Lord Berkeley received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of another See also:fair on the See also:vigil and day of Holyrood. The descendants of the Berkeley family still hold the manor and town. Berkeley Castle was the See also:scene of the See also:death of Edward II. The king was at first entrusted to the care of Lord Berkeley, who, being considered too lenient, was obliged to give up his prisoner and castle to See also:Sir See also:John Mautravers and Thomas Gournay. The town has no charter, but is mentioned as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 1284–1285. It was governed by a See also:mayor and twelve aldermen, but by 1864 their privileges had become merely nominal, and the See also:corporation was dissolved in 1885 under the Municipal Corporations See also:Act. Berkeley was formerly noted for the manufacture of clothing, but the trade had decreased by the 16th century, for See also:Leland, See also:writing about 1520, says " the town of Berkeley is no See also:great thing. . . . It See also:bath very much occupied and yet somewhat See also:cloth clothing."
See John See also:Fisher, See also:History of Berkeley (1864).
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