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 Virginia

In Canada there is:

Berkeley, Ontario

Berkeley 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, actor

In 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 /ˈbɑː.kliː/ while American places named Berkeley are pronounced /ˈbəɹ.kli/ possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation, /ˈbɑɹ.kli/.

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