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Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron de Botetourt, more commonly known as Lord Botetourt, (1718 – October 15, 1770) was governor of the Virginia Colony from 1768 to 1770. He was a member of Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Lord Botetourt resided in the Governor's Palace on Duke of Gloucester Street, now a major attraction of Colonial Williamsburg in the Historic Triangle. Although a popular governor, Lord Botetourt served only two years. He died suddenly while still in office in 1770 and was buried in the Wren Building Chapel at William and Mary.

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A statue of him was placed in the Capitol in Williamsburg in 1773. The Capital of Colonial Virginia was located in Williamsburg from 1699 until 1780, but at the urging of Governor Thomas Jefferson, was moved to Richmond for security reasons during the American Revolution.

The statue of Lord Botetourt was acquired by William and Mary and moved to the campus from the former Capitol building in 1797, and after years of weathering, was eventually moved to a location inside the College's Swem Library in the 20th century. In 1993, as the College celebrated its Tercentenary (300th anniversary), a new statue of Lord Botetourt, created in bronze by W&M alumnus, Gordon Kray, was installed in the College Yard, in the place occupied for so many years by the original.

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Botetourt County, Virginia was named in his honor. Historians also believe that Berkeley County, Virginia and the town of Berkeley Springs, both now in West Virginia, were also named in his honor, or possibly that of another popular colonial governor, Sir William Berkeley. [2]

Lord Botetourt High School in the unincorporated town of Daleville in Botetourt County, Virginia is also named in his honor.
 1514 - 25 FEB 1559/60 Catherine Blount 1549 - 1617 Margaret Lygon 68 68 1531 - 1601 Sir Henry De Berkeley 70 70 1581 - 1654 Sir Edward De Berkeley 73 73 1577 - 15 JAN 1616/17 Sir Maurice De Berkeley 1580 - 1626 Elizabeth Killigrew 46 46 1605 - 1677 Sir William Berkeley 72 72 4 JAN 1668/69 - 1736 William Byron 1690 Frances Berkeley 1631 Barbara Berkeley 1645 Frances Berkeley 1670 Barbara Berkeley 1667 John Trevanion 1695 Frances Trevanion 1693 William Trevanion 1697 Sophia Trevanion 1722 - 1798 William Byron 75 75 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
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William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, (November 5, 1722 – May 19, 1798), also known as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron", was the poet Lord Byron's great-uncle. He was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and his wife Hon. Frances Berkeley, a descendant of John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton.

Lord Byron inherited his title upon the death of his father on August 18, 1736. A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen, he went on to marry Elizabeth Shaw, daughter and heiress of Charles Shaw of Besthorpe in Norfolk, on March 28, 1747. The following month, he was elected Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of Freemasons, a position he held until March 20, 1752. He also served as Master of the Royal Staghounds from 1763 until 1765, when he began a decent into madness and scandal.

On January 26, 1765, Lord Byron killed his cousin and neighbor, William Chaworth, in a duel at the Stars and Garters Tavern in London. The fight resulted from an argument the two had been engaged in, allegedly over the best method in which to hang game. Lord Byron and his cousin retired to a dim room to resolve their disagreement and it was there that Lord Byron thrust his sword through Chaworth's stomach. Chaworth lived until the following day, expressing his disgust that he had not been of sound enough mind to insist they fight in a location outfitted with better lighting before finally succumbing to his injury. Lord Byron was tried for Chaworth's death, but under the statute of Edward VI he was found guilty only of manslaughter and forced to pay a small fine. Upon returning home to Newstead Abbey, he mounted the sword he used to kill Chaworth on the wall in his bedroom. It was at this time in his life that he was nicknamed "the Wicked Lord", a title he very much enjoyed.

Following his trial, Lord Byron's eccentricity further evolved. In one incident, he shot his coachman during a disagreement then heaved the body into the coach on top of his wife and took over the reins himself. He had a miniature castle built in the woods at Newstead and held lavish parties within its walls. He also oversaw the construction of two forts on the property and used them, in conjunction with a small cannon, to stage naval battles. He hesitated to travel away from Newstead Abbey, but when travel became necessary he did so under the alias of Waters. It was during this period that Elizabeth left him. Upon her departure, Byron took one of the servants as his mistress. The woman's name was Hardstaff, but she was known primarily as "Lady Betty".

The ruin of the Byron family wealth and property began when Lord Byron's son and heir (also named William) eloped with Juliana Byron, the daughter of William's younger brother, the naval captain and later Vice-Admiral John Byron. Lord Byron felt that intermarrying would produce children plagued with madness and strongly opposed the union. He also needed his son to marry well in order to escape the debt that had been incurred in the Byron name. When defied by his son, he became enraged and committed himself to ruining his inheritance so that, in the event of his death, his son would receive nothing but debt and worthless property. He laid waste to Newstead Abbey, allowing the house to fall into disrepair, cutting down the great stands of timber surrounding it, and killing over 2000 deer on the estate. He also illegally leased the coalmines in Rochdale, an act that created an enormous financial burden for years to come.

His vicious plan, however, was thwarted when his son died in 1776. William also outlived his grandson, a young man who, at the age of twenty-two, was killed by cannon fire in 1794 while fighting in Corsica. The legacy of misery was then left to his great-nephew, George Gordon Byron, who became the 6th Baron Byron when Lord Byron died on May 21, 1798, at the age of seventy-nine. Upon his death, it is said that the great number of crickets he kept at Newstead left the estate in swarms. Lord Byron is buried in the Byron vault at Hucknall Torkard in Nottinghamshire.
 1650 - 1712 William Berkeley 62 62 1680 - 1736 James Berkeley 56 56 1698 Louisa Lennox 1716 Augustus Berkeley 2 JAN 1607/08 - 1678 Sir John Berkeley John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
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John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – August 28, 1678) was the fifth and youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley. He commanded the army against the Scots in 1638, and was knighted at Berwick in that year. He bore a conspicuous part in the civil wars that followed, supporting the royal cause; he became Governor of Exeter, and General of the King Charles I's forces in Devon. He participated in the exile of the royal family, in 1652, and was placed at the head of the Duke of York's establishment, having the management of all the Duke's receipts and expenditures. On May 19, 1658 he was raised to the Peerage, as Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in the county of Somerset. On the restoration he became one of the Privy Council, and towards the close of 1669, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and administered the government for two years. In 1675 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to Versailles, and died 28 August, 1678. Although holding so many distingnished offices some authorities assert that, at one time, he was under a cloud, in consequence of his being detected in selling of offices, and other corrupt practices. Pepys speaks of him as being esteemed "a fortunate, though a passionate, and but weak man as to policy", and "the most hot, fiery man in discourse, without any cause", he ever saw. The intimate relations existing between Berkeley and King Charles and the Duke of York, as shown in Pepys' illustrative diary, fully account for the granting to him an interest in New Jersey, as well as in Carolina, which he had previously received.



 1723 - 1786 John "Foulweather Jack" Byron 62 62 John Byron
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John Byron (November 8, 1723 – April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. He was known as Foul-weather Jack because of his frequent bad luck with the weather.

Byron was the second son of the 4th Baron Byron. He joined the navy at a young age, accompanying Baron Anson on his circumnavigation as a midshipman. Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors had to make their way by boat to Rio de Janeiro. This episode was the basis of the novel The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian which closely follows Byron's own account.

In 1760 he was in command of a squadron sent to destroy the fortifications at Louisbourg.

Between June 1764 and May 1766 Byron completed his own circumnavigation as captain of HMS Dolphin. In 1765 he took possession of the Falkland Islands on the part of Britain on the ground of prior discovery, and his doing so was nearly the cause of a war between Great Britain and Spain, both countries having armed fleets to contest the sovereignty of the barren islands. On this voyage, Byron discovered islands of the Tuamotus, Tokelau and the Gilbert Islands, and visited Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands.

In 1769 he was appointed governor of Newfoundland. He was made Commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the West Indies in 1778 and 1779 during the American War of Independence. He unsuccessfully attacked a French fleet under the Comte d'Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in July 1779.

He was the father of John Mad Jack Byron, who in turn fathered the poet Lord Byron.




John was a naval man who served in the squadron of Lord Anson in 1740 was castaway and suffer ed incredible hardship for five years, of which he afterwards published a narrative. He wa s sent out upon a voyage of discovery to the Straits of Magellan in the year 1764 and was appointed Commander in Chief of his majesty's fleet in the West Indies in 1778. He resigned from the post in 1780.

On inheriting from a Berkeley Uncle he spent much money on re-building a country house at Pirbright in Surrey, England, which he named "Byron Lodge". He planted a mile long avenue of pine trees there which is to this day known as "The Admiral's Walk".

Owned a farm at Crondall in Hampshire.

WILDFIRE leaped about his cradle, as it were. Of a "dark and ominous type", says his German biographer, Karl Elze, were his immediate forbears. "Unbridled passions, defiant self-will, arrogant contempt for the accepted order of things, together with high endowments of energy -  these made an inauspicious heritage"; and his grandfather, by marrying a Cornishwoman,[1] ha d added to the cup a superfluous infusion of the Celtic melancholy - as notorious in our own days as was the Byronic variety in those of which I am to write. The grandfather was that Admiral John Byron who was known to his companions in service by the nickname of Foulweather Jack, because he never could make a voyage without encountering a hurricane. From. a word let fall by Mrs. Piozzi, who was an intimate friend of his wife, we gather that the Admiral made his hurricanes for himself when he was at home.[2] His first cousin, Sophia Trevanion, whom he married in 1748, gave him two sons and four daughters.[3] From the list of these, Julian a and John stand forth as the stormy petrels. Juliana qualified for the typical Byronic par t by marriage with her first cousin, William Byron. This was violently opposed by his father , the legendary "Wicked Lord" - otherwise William, fifth Baron Byron, hero of the Chaworth Duel tragedy. His dislike to the union brought about the devastation of the family property from which it never, in the Byron days, wholly recovered; for this fifth lord was so infuriated by the marriage of his son with one thus near in blood that - very nearly insane as he was , and to such extent justified of his wrath against the Byronic tendency to in-breeding - h e resolved to hand that heir a ruined heritage. The heritage was ruined, but the son never re ceived it. He died before the father in 1788; and his son, too, died in 1794,[4]when our Byron was six years old - leaving the child heir to the barony.

The admiral, next brother to William, fifth Lord Byron, was a distinguished naval officer, whose 'Narrative' of his shipwreck in the 'Wager' was published in 1768, and whose 'Voyage roun d the World' in the 'Dolphin' was described by "an officer in the said ship" in 1767. His eldest son, John Byron, educated at Westminster and a French Military Academy, entered the Guards and served in America.
A gambler, a spendthrift, a profligate scamp, disowned by his father, he in 1778 ran away with, and in 1779 married, Lady Carmarthen, wife of Francis, afterwards fifth Duke of Leeds, ne e Lady Amelia d'Arcy, only child and heiress of the last Earl of Holderness, and Baroness Conyers in her own right. 1721 Isabella Byron 1724 Richard Byron 1730 George Byron 1640 - 1709 Barbara Villiers 68 68 1686 - 1738 Martha Cary 52 52 1657 - 1713 Lt. Col. William Cary 56 56 Lieutenant Colonel William Cary was a member of the House of Burgesses. He left a will on 26 Aug 1711; proved 4 Jun 1713. 1657 - 1730 Martha Scarisbrook 73 73 1698 Major Miles Cary 1700 - 1742 William Cary 42 42 1701 John Cary 1630 - 1679 Lt. Col. John Scarisbrook 49 49 Lieutenant Colonel John Scarisbrook was a leader in Bacon's Rebellion. He resided at York Co., VA.
He left a will on 18 Apr 1679; proved 24 Jun 1679. 1676 Capt. John Scarisbrook 1673 Hannah Scarisbrook 1637 - 1677 Mary Martiau 40 40 1591 - 1657 Capt. Nicholas Martiau 66 66 Captain Nicholas Martiau immigrated in Jun 1620 to Elizabeth City, Virginia; departed England 11 May 1620 on ship 'Francis Bonaventure.' He resided at York Co., VA. He was a member of the House of Burgesses at Virginia. He left a will on 1 Mar 1656/57; proved 24 Apr 1657.
 1605 - 1640 Jane Berkeley 35 35 1623 Nicholas Martiau 1625 - 1686 Elizabeth Martiau 61 61 1629 Sarah Martiau 1631 Richard Martiau 1580 Jane Longe 1664 - 1700 Mary Warner 36 36 1642 - 1681 Augustine Warner 39 39 1643 - 1686 Mildred Reade 43 43 1666 Augustine Warner 1668 Robert Warner 1670 Mildred Warner 1672 - 5 FEB 1720/21 Elizabeth Warner 1674 George Warner 1676 Sarah Warner 1608 - 1671 George Reade 63 63 1639 John Reade 1641 George Reade 1645 - 1712 Robert Reade 67 67 1647 Benjamin Reade 1649 Thomas Reade 1650 Francis Reade 1652 - 1717 Elizabeth Reade 65 65 1654 Ann Reade 1658 Mary Reade 1704 - 1742 Elizabeth Cary 38 38 1684 Harwood Cary 1659 Mary Scarisbrook 1651 - 1715 Thomas Chisman 64 64 1673 Thomas Chisman 19 FEB 1674/75 Mildred Chisman 1677 Mary Chisman 4 MAR 1681/82 John Chisman 21 MAR 1685/86 Jane Chisman 1690 Sarah Chisman 1692 Anne Chisman 1701 Elizabeth Chisman 1678 - 21 FEB 1735/36 John Chetwynd 1682 - 28 FEB 1736/37 Mary Berkeley 1617 - 1708 Barbara Villiers 91 91 1642 Barbara Berkeley 1644 Frances Berkeley 1648 Mary Berkeley 1583 Margaret De Berkeley 1599 - 1688 Sir Charles Berkeley 88 88 1610 Penelope Godolphin 1630 Sir Maurice Berkeley 1632 - 6 MAR 1664/65 Charles Berkeley 1634 - 1666 Sir William Berkeley 32 32 1636 - 1712 John Berkeley 76 76 1687 - 28 FEB 1736/37 Mary Berkeley 1599 Sir Henry Berkeley 1603 Sir Maurice Berkeley 1609 Margaret Berkeley 1611 Jane Berkeley 1533 Edward De Berkeley 1537 Robert De Berkeley 1539 John De Berkeley 1541 Gertrude De Berkeley 1543 Elizabeth De Berkeley 1547 Margaret De Berkeley 1549 Frances De Berkeley 1551 Anne De Berkeley 1559 Francis De Berkeley 1579 - 1666 Sir Henry De Berkeley 87 87 1588 - 4 JAN 1656/57 Elizabeth De Neville 1602 Dorothy Berkeley 1606 Jael Berkeley 1608 - 1672 Maurice Berkeley 64 64 1616 Margaret Berkeley 1618 Frances Berkeley 1611 - 1690 Frances Culpeper 79 79 1655 Edward Berkeley 1708 - 1767 John Chetwynd 59 59 1706 Mary Berkeley 1546 - 1609 Barbara Longe 63 63 1571 Edward Berkeley 1535 - 1623 Maurice De Berkeley 88 88 1640 Edmund Berkeley 1632 Maurice Berkeley 1609 - 1668 Barbara Longe 59 59 1647 Mary Kemp 1669 Sarah Berkeley 1672 - 1718 Edmund Berkeley 46 46 1683 - 1716 Lucy Burwell 33 33 1704 - 1718 Edmund Berkeley 13 13 1680 - 1719 Margaret Reade 39 39 1654 - 1722 Mary Lilly 68 68 1687 John Reade 1692 Robert Reade 1695 Thomas Reade 1697 Mildred Reade 1699 George Reade Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.