Thursday 7 November 2013
311 Francis Henry Berkeley
Constituency : Bristol 1837-70
Francis was a son of the Earl of Berkeley and declared by the House of Lords in 1811 to be illegitimate. He was educated at Oxford. He was a great shot and amateur boxer. Francis was a Radical and in 1856 he grumbled to his constituents that Palmerston was not enough of a Liberal but still backed him.
Francis was an Anglican but supported religious equality in education.
Francis was a longstanding supporter of the secret ballot with an annual motion to that effect which was rarely passed.
He died in 1870 aged 75.
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