About Francis Berkeley
Born 1583. Francis Berkeley was a politician.
Francis Berkeley (c.1583/1628) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.
Berkeley was eldest son of Edmund Berkeley (d. 1609), draper of Shrewsbury and Hadnall and his first wife Mary, daughter and coheir of William Felton of Ewdnes, Worfield, Shropshire. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1605 and was called to the bar in 1612. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury. He was re-elected MP for Shrewsbury in 1621 and in 1624.
He married Anne (d. 1629), daughter of Thomas Purcell of Dinthill Hall, Bicton, Shropshire.
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