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Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818) was a Royal Navy officer. An admiral, he was highly popular yet controversial in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley. 1753-1818. He was born on 10 August 1753, the second surviving son of Augustus, the 4th Earl of Berkeley, and of his wife Elizabeth Drax. He was the grandson of a previous First Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral James Berkeley, and the cousin of both Admiral Viscount Keppel and Captain George Keppel.
GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON; Edited by James Stanier Clarke, John McArthur; Book: The Naval Chronicle; Online publication: 10 January 2011; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511731648.003
BERKELEY, Hon. George Cranfield (1753-1818), of Wood End, nr. Chichester, Suss. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 , ed. R. Thorne, 1986
After his education at Eton College, George Cranfield Berkeley entered the Royal Navy in 1766. From 1767 to 1769 he served on the Guernsey under Hugh Palliser* at Newfoundland, and in 1774 he was promoted lieutenant. In 1780 he became a captain, and the same year commanded the sloop Fairy off Newfoundland, capturing nine American privateers.
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Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818), often known as George Berkeley, was a highly experienced, popular, yet controversial naval officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
George Cranfield Berkeley (1753-1818) served in the Royal Navy from 1766 to 1812. In 1799 he was appointed Rear-Admiral and in 1805 he became a Vice-Admiral. In 1810, he was promoted to the rank of Admiral, and in acknowledgement of his services to Portugal was named Lord High Admiral of the Portuguese Navy.
