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George BERKELEY, 1st Earl Berkeley 1626/7-98
Biographical Note
Landowner, politician, Governor of the Levant Company.
Books
Inherited a library of books made by Sir Robert Coke (1587-1653, who married his aunt); gave 555 volumes to Sion College in 1681, and bequeathed the remainder to the College.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Warmington, Andrew. "Berkeley, George, first earl of Berkeley (1626/7–1698), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Pearce, E. Sion College and Library, 1913, 258-60.
- Berkeley armorial binding in Sion College Library.