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Berkeley, Henry (1547 - 1601)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1547
Death Date: 1601-09-07

Notes

Educated at the Middle Temple 1565

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Lygon, Margaret ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union also produced one unnamed son.

Siblings

Offspring

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1584 (possibly knighted 1585)
    Vacated: 1601-09-07

General Lands Note

Succeeded father 1581

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Sheriff, Worcestershire 1578 -11 -17 1579 -11 -23
Keeper, Somerset 1581
JP, Somerset 1582 Held office from this date onward
MP, Somerset 1584
Deputy Lieut, Somerset 1585 1590 Dismissed
MP, Somerset 1586
Sheriff, Dorset 1587 -12 -4 1588 -11 -25
Deputy Lieut, Somerset 1591 (reinstated)
Deputy Lieut, Worcestershire 1595

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Norwood Park, Somerset
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1581-08
    Divested: 1601-09
    Patrimony; primary residence until 1585
  • Bruton Abbey, Somerset
    Acquired: 1585
    Divested: 1601-09
    Patrimony (residence after death of stepmother)

Lands

  • Buckinghamshire
  • Gloucestershire
  • Somerset: Stoke Manor
  • Somerset: Yarlington Manor
    Acquired: 1591
  • Worcestershire
    Via marriage

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Mr Berkeley's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Mr Berkeley's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Berkeley's Players Berkeley, Henry (1547 - 1601) Players 1
Mr Berkeley's Players Berkeley, Henry (1547 - 1601) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Norwood Park Somerset Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Hasler, P.W. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1558–1603. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1981
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Page, William, and R.W. Dunning, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Somerset. 4 vols. London; Oxford: Constable [vols 1--2]; Oxford UP [vols 3--8], 1906--12 [vols 1--2]; 1974--2004 [vols 3--8]
  • Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Warwick. 8 vols. London: Archibald Constable & Co. [vols 1-–2]; Oxford UP [vols 3-–8], 1904--8 [vols 1--2]; 1945--69 [vols 3--8]
  • Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906
  • Smyth, John. The Lives of the Berkeleys, Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley in the County of Gloucester from 1066 to 1618: with a Description of the Hundred of Berkeley and of its Inhabitants. 1st ed [1618]. 3 vols. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1883--5