Berkeley
For another similar name, see Berkley.
The Berkeley family is unique in having an unbroken male line of descent from a Saxon ancestor before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to the present day. The family reputedly descends from Harding, the son of Eadnoth (Alnod), who as "Marshal" or "Staller" was a high official under King Edward the Confessor. The town of Berkeley is located in the county of Gloucestershire and is situated about five miles west of Dursley and eighteen southwest of Gloucester, and northeast of Bristol. It was chartered by King Edward I to be governed by a mayor and alderman, but the corporation was annulled in 1885. The place confers the title of Earl and Baron on the Berkeley family. The manor embraces nearly thirty parishes and is one of the largest in England; it was given by William the Conqueror to Roger de Berkeley, Lord of Dursley. From "The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire", "The Earl of Berkeley", pp 70-71 (1882).
Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from
Berkeley, Gloucestershire,
UK, from whom the noble family of
Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British
Royal Navy have been christened "
HMS Berkeley Castle". Any of the holders of several titles in the British Peerage may be known as
Lord Berkeley, including
Baron Berkeley. There are also the
Berkeley Baronets. The former
Berkeley House, London, has given its name to
Berkeley Square, London, which inspired a 1933 movie
Berkeley Square which inspired a
TV miniseries, "Berkeley Square". "
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a popular British song.
In the US there are numerous places named
Berkeley. They honour either Sir
William Berkeley, governor of
Virginia and co-proprietor of
New Jersey, in whose honour
Berkeley Plantation in Tidewater Viginia was named; or Bishop
George Berkeley.
*
Berkeley, California**
"Berkeley" may refer to the
University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal", but should not be confused with
Berkeley College,
Berkeley College at Yale, or
Berklee College of Music.
***the
Berkeley Mafia of Indonesian economists, trained at UC Berkeley
***the
Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton, a robotic prosthesis, also developed there.
**
Berkeley City College, a community college in Berkeley, California.
*
Berkeley, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
*
Berkeley, Missouri*
Berkeley, Virginia*
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey*
Berkeley Lake, Georgia*
Berkeley Township, New Jersey*
Berkeley County, South Carolina*
Berkeley County, West VirginiaIn Canada there is:
*
Berkeley, OntarioBerkeley is a surname of:
*"Anthony Berkeley" a pseudonym of
Anthony Berkeley Cox, writer
*
Busby Berkeley, film
choreographer*
Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of
Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort*
Edmund Berkeley, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the
ACM and the inventor of the first personal computer,
Simon*Bishop
George Berkeley,
idealist philosopher*
Humphry Berkeley,
politician*Sir
Lennox Berkeley,
composer*
Michael Berkeley,
composer and son of Sir Lennox
*
Miles Joseph Berkeley,
botanist*
Theresa Berkeley,
London madam*Sir
William Berkeley*
Xander Berkeley,
actorIn addition,
Berkeley may refer to:
* either of two British car manufacturers (see
Berkeley cars).
*
Berkeley DB, an embedded database system by
Sleepycat Software.
*
Berkeley Fast File System.
*
Berkeley Software Distribution*the
Berkeley Pit, a former copper mine in
Butte, Montana, the largest
Superfund site.
*the
Berkeley, a ferryboat from the
San Francisco Bay Area and now a museum ship in
San Diego.
*the
USS Berkeley (DDG-15), named for
General Randolph Carter Berkeley, USMC, a Virginian.
*the
Berkeley Carroll School, a
private school in
Brooklyn,
New York City.
*the
Berkeley Hunt.Places in England and English people called Berkeley are pronounced // while American places named Berkeley are pronounced // possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation, //.
