Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (14 December 1599 – 12 June 1668) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1668.
He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.
He helped to organise the local resistance to ship-money, but was a Royalist during the Civil War executing a Commission of Array in 1642.
[2] Following the Restoration, Berkeley was elected MP for Heytesbury and Bath in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.
[2] His third son, William, became an admiral in the Royal Navy and was also killed fighting the Dutch, in the Four Days' Battle in 1666.