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Vice-Admiral
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley KG,
PC (aft.
1679 –
17 August 1736) was the son of
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley and Hon. Elizabeth Noel. He was a
Royal Navy officer who served as
First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of
King George I.
He became a captain in
1701, and was also
MP for
Gloucester 1701–
1702. He took part in the battle off
Málaga under
Admiral Rooke, commanding
HMS Boyne. He was summoned to Parliament by
writ of acceleration as Lord Berkeley on
5 March 1705, and continued to rise in the Navy.
He commanded
HMS St George in 1706, and narrowly escaped the wreck upon the
Scillies in which
Sir Cloudesley Shovell in
HMS Association was lost on
October 23 1707. The
St George ran aground on the same ledge as the
Association, but was lifted off with the next wave. He was promoted to
Vice-Admiral of the Blue that same year. He recaptured
HMS Bristol, taken while guarding a convoy, from the French on
April 9,
1709, but she sank shortly after. In November 1709 he was promoted to
Vice-Admiral of the Red.
With the death of his father on
September 24,
1710, he became the 3rd
Earl of Berkeley and
Viscount Dursley. That year, he was also made High Steward of Gloucester, Warden of the
Forest of Dean,
Constable of St. Briavel's Castle, and
Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, which he held until
1712, and then from
1714 to his death, and
Custos Rotulorum of Surrey, which he held until his death. In 1714, besides his restoration to his offices in Gloucestershire, he was made a
Lord of the Bedchamber.
He married Lady Louisa Lennox, daughter of
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Anne Brudenell, on
13 February 1711.
In
1717, he was made
First Lord of the Admiralty,
Vice-Admiral of Great Britain March 18,
1717, and a member of the
Privy Council on
April 17,
1717. On
March 31,
1718, he was created a
Knight of the Garter. He was dismissed as First Lord of the Admiralty in
1727, for opposing Sir
Robert Walpole, and also left his office as Lord of the Bedchamber.
He died on
17 August 1736 at the Castle of
Aubigny,
France, and was buried on
October 31,
1736 at
Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He was succeeded by his son
Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley.
Lord Hervey wrote "he was a man of great family and great quality, rough, proud, hard, and obstinate, with excellent good natural parts, but so uncultivated that he was totally ignorant of every branch of knowledge but his profession. He was haughty and tyrannical, but honourable, gallant, observant of his word; equally incapable of flattering a prince, bending to a minister, or lying to anybody he'd to deal with."
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