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Name: William Berkeley, Sir
Birth Date: 1606
Death Date: 1677
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: governor

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Biography of William Berkeley, Sir
813 words, approx. 3 pages
Sir William Berkeley (1606-1677), English royal governor of the colony of Virginia, was a leading protagonist in Bacon's Rebellion. He made substantial contributions to the colony but was almost fanatically loyal to England. William Berkeley was the...


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Sir William Berkeley (pronounced "bark-lee") (Hanworth Manor, Middlesex 1605–Berkeley House, Mayfair, London July 9, 1677) was a Governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a...


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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677
01/01/2008: 681 words, approx. 2 pages
The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677 * Edited by Warren M. Billings with the assistance of Maria Kimberly * Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2007 * 1, 1,682 pp. * $59.95 It is difficult to imagine a historian better suited to compile and...
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The Journal of Southern History
Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
02/01/2006: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia. By Warren M. Billings. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 290. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3012-5.) This long-awaited biography of Sir William Berkeley, the critical fulcrum of seventeenth-century Virginia politics, is...
 


 

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