Robert Berkeley (cricketer)

Captain Robert George Wilmot Berkeley, DL (23 April 1898 – 28 August 1969), served as High Sheriff of Worcestershire (1933/34), and from 1952 as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county.[1] He also played first-class cricket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

Robert Berkeley
Personal information
Full name
Robert George Wilmot Berkeley
Born(1898-04-23)23 April 1898
Warley Place, Essex, England
Died28 August 1969(1969-08-28) (aged 71)
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
BattingRight-handed
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 4
Runs scored 37
Batting average 5.28
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 16
Balls bowled 0
Wickets 0
Bowling average -
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling -
Catches/stumpings 0/0
Source: CricketArchive, 2 May 2009

Captain Berkeley lived at Spetchley Park in Worcestershire before inheriting Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire from his 13th cousin, the 8th and last Earl of Berkeley, in 1942.[2]

Life

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Educated at Downside and the Oratory School,[1] Berkeley served with the Westminster Dragoons in Palestine and on the Western Front during the First World War;[1] he also served in the Second World War,[3] being promoted Captain while serving with the Royal Artillery.[1] Appointed Deputy Master of the Berkeley Hunt in 1923, he served as its Joint Master from 1928 until his death.[4]

Cricket

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Berkeley played four first-class matches for Worcestershire soon after the First World War,[5] his last, against Northamptonshire in 1922, being in the County Championship.[6]

A member of MCC, Berkeley also scored 138 in a minor game for Gentlemen of Worcestershire against Gentlemen of Suffolk in 1933.[7]

Family

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The only son of Major Robert Berkeley (1853–1940), of Spetchley Park, descended from Sir Rowland Berkeley, he was in remainder to the Berkeley barony.

In 1927 he married the Hon. Myrtle Dormer (1907–1982), second daughter of the Charles, 14th Baron Dormer, CBE. Captain and the Hon. Mrs Berkeley had two daughters (including Rosalind, a nun) and one son:

Capain Berkeley died in 1969 at a Bristol nursing home.[3]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d "Robert George Wilmot Berkeley". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
  2. ^ www.berkeley-castle.com
  3. ^ a b Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1970.
  4. ^ www.berkeleyhunt.co.uk
  5. ^ www.wccc.co.uk
  6. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Robert Berkeley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  7. ^ "Gentlemen of Worcestershire v Gentlemen of Suffolk in 1933". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
  8. ^ www.burkespeerage.com
  9. ^ www.highsheriffofgloucestershire.org.uk
  10. ^ www.spetchleyparkestate.co.uk

References

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