Captain Robert George Wilmot Berkeley DL (23 April 1898 – 28 August 1969) was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1933, and Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1952;[1] he also appeared four times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He lived at Berkeley Castle and Spetchley Park.[1]

Life

Berkeley was educated at Downside and The Oratory School,[1] and served with the Westminster Dragoons in Palestine and on the Western Front in the First World War;[1] he also served in the Second World War,[2] and was promoted to captain while serving with the Royal Artillery.[1] In 1923 he was made deputy master of the Berkeley Hunt, and from 1928 until his death was joint master.[1]

Cricket

Berkeley played four first-class games for Worcestershire shortly after the First World War. Only one of these, against Northamptonshire in 1922, was in the County Championship.[3] He had very little success in any of his first-class matches, although he did score 138 in a minor game for Gentlemen of Worcestershire against Gentlemen of Suffolk in 1933.[4]

Family

In 1927 he married the Hon Myrtle Dormer, daughter of the 14th Baron Dormer; they had three children.[1]

Berkeley died in a nursing home in Bristol.[2]

Notes

References

• Robert Berkeley at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• Robert Berkeley at ESPNcricinfo

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