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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
Admiral The Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, GCB was a Royal Navy officer. An admiral, he was highly popular yet controversial in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
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.
The Honble. George Cranfield Berkeley | Museum number 1902,1011.206 ...
