Frederick Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley

[2] In 1766, Berkeley was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, High Steward of Gloucester, Constable of St Briavels, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Colonel of the South Gloucestershire Militia, which he commanded until his death.

[2][3] George W. E. Russell gives the following account of an adventure that Berkeley once had on the road:He had always declared that any one might without disgrace be overcome by superior numbers, but that he would never surrender to a single highwayman.

They asserted that the marriage had taken place on 30 March 1785, but the earliest ceremony of which there is incontrovertible proof was a wedding in Lambeth Church, Surrey, on 16 May 1796, at which date she was pregnant with their seventh child.

[2][5] He settled Berkeley Castle upon their eldest son, William FitzHardinge Berkeley, but William's attempt to assume his father's honours were disallowed by the House of Lords, who considered him illegitimate.

Per his father's will, he would have lost his small inheritance had he disputed his eldest brother's claim to the titles.