Born near the Potomac River in Virginia, c. 1671, to the former Ann Parrott Fox and her second husband, Colonel St. Leger Codd, who had been educated as a lawyer in London before emigrating to Virginia where he became responsible for protecting the Potomac River area from military attack, and also operated a plantation, speculated in real estate and would serve in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
His father remarried, to the politically well-connected Ann Bennett Bland, widow of the former speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses Theodorick Bland of Westover and daughter of Richard Bennett who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council.
His father, who had been educated in the Inns of Court in London, would serve in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly before his death in 1707.
[1] Berkeley Codd married a woman named Mary and resided in Cedar Creek Hundred, now in Sussex County, Delaware.
[2][3] He was appointed as a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court on April 11, 1710, and served in that position until at least 1723.