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.

[2] 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.

[4] 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.

Mrs Berkeley had two daughters (including Rosalind, a nun) and one son: Captain Berkeley died in 1969 at a Bristol nursing home.