Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley
Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley( April 1271 – 31 May 1326)," The Magnanimous", feudal baron of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England, was a peer.
He rebelled against King Edward II and the Despencers.
His epithet, and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family, was coined by John Smyth of Nibley( died 1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of" Lives of the Berkeleys".
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, 2nd Earl of Desmond( 29 December 1640 – 23 August 1685) was an aristocrat in the Peerage of England.
He was the son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his wife, the former Bridget Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope.
Feilding inherited the title of Earl of Denbigh from his paternal uncle Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, who died without heirs in 1675.
He married, firstly, Mary King( died 1669), daughter of Sir Robert King and Frances Folliott.
Secondly, he married Lady Mary Carey, daughter of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth.
He died on 23 August 1685 at age 44.
By his first wife, Mary King, Feilding had the following children:
There were no children from the earl's second marriage.
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (d. 1677)
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield( 1658 – 24 October 1677) was the daughter of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, and the third wife of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield.
She was born in Wing, Buckinghamshire.
She had two sons by the Earl of Chesterfield: Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Charles Stanhope.
Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne
Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne( c. 1670 – April 1702).
The eldest son of Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne and Elizabeth Lyon, he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Aboyne in March 1681.
On his death in 1702 he was succeeded in his titles by his son.
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford and 2nd Earl of Lindsay( April 1644 – 6 March 1698) was a Scottish noble and politician.
Lindsay was the eldest son of John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 17th Earl of Crawford, and 1st Earl of Lindsay, by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington.
William succeeded to the earldoms in 1678.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, president of the Convention parliament in 1689, a commissioner of the treasury in 1690, and one of the commissioners for settling the government of the Church of Scotland.
He married firstly Lady Mary Johnstone, daughter of 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1670.
They had one son:
He married secondly Lady Henrietta Fleming, daughter of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and widow of 5th Earl of Wigtown, and had further issue.
Margaret de Stafford
Margaret Stafford( born c. 1364; died 9 June 1396) was the daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and Philippa de Beauchamp.
She was the first wife of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and the grandmother of the 2nd Earl.
Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero
Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero S.D.B.( January 24, 1914 – June 8, 2010) was a Paraguayan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
At the time of his death, he was one of the oldest Catholic bishops and the oldest bishop from Paraguay.
Rolón Silvero was born in Caazapá, Paraguay in 1914.
He was ordained a priest on November 23, 1941 from the religious institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
He was appointed prelate to the Caacupé Diocese on August 2, 1960.
On October 20, 1965 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Furnos Maior and ordained January 23, 1966.
Rolón Silvero was appointed bishop of the Caacupé Diocese and then appointed to the Archdiocese of Asunción on June 16, 1970.
Rolón retired from the Archdiocese of Asuncion on May 20, 1989.
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
Vice- Admiral James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley,( aft. 1679 – 17 August 1736) was the son of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley and the Hon. Elizabeth Noel.
He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Dursley prior to succeeding as Earl of Berkeley in 1710.
He was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who served as First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of King George I. Viscount Dursley received his commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 10 March 1699 and was promoted to captain on 2 April 1701.
He was also a Member of Parliament( MP) for Gloucester 1701 – 1702.
He took part in the battle off Málaga under Admiral Rooke, commanding HMS" Boyne".
He was summoned to Parliament by writ of acceleration as Baron Berkeley on 5 March 1705, and continued to rise in the Navy.
Dursley commanded HMS" St George" in 1706, and narrowly escaped the Scilly naval disaster in which Sir Cloudesley Shovell in HMS" Association" was lost on 23 October 1707.
The" St George" ran aground on the same ledge as the" Association", but was lifted off with the next wave.
It is said that it was Dursley who gave his close friend
Shovell the priceless emerald ring which features prominently in some of the legends still told about the disaster.
With the death of Sir Clowdisley Shovell, a promotion of flag- officers was made.
Rear Admiral Robert Fairfax, was to be commissioned as a Vice Admiral of the Blue( it was signed by the Lord High Admiral and gazetted) but was then cancelled, and Dursley, who was his junior and because of the political influence of his family, made Vice Admiral of the Blue in his stead with seniority of 10 January 1708.
Dursley was then promoted to Vice Admiral of the White in late 1708.
In April 1709 he recaptured HMS" Bristol", which had been taken by the French a short time earlier, but she sank shortly afterwards.
Dursley was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Red in December 1709.
With the death of his father on 24 September 1710, Dursley succeeded to his titles and became the 3rd Earl of Berkeley.
That year, he was also made High Steward of Gloucester, Warden of the Forest of Dean, Constable of St. Briavel's Castle, and Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, which he held until 1712, and then from 1714 to his death, and Custos Rotulorum of Surrey, which he held until his death.
In 1714, besides his restoration to his offices in Gloucestershire, he was made a Lord of the Bedchamber.
He married Lady Louisa Lennox( 24 December 1694 – 15 January 1716), daughter of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Anne Brudenell, on 13 February 1711.
They had two children, his wife dying in childbirth:
On 16 May 1717, he was made First Lord of the Admiralty, He also became Vice- Admiral of Great Britain( a civil position with no executive command) and a member of the Privy Council.
On 31 March 1718, he was created a Knight of the Garter.
He held the supreme post in the Admiralty Board for over a decade, before being dismissed as First Lord of the Admiralty on 2 August 1727, for opposing Sir Robert Walpole, and also left his office as Lord of the Bedchamber at this time.
In 1719 he was one of main subscribers in the Royal Academy of Music( 1719), a corporation that produced baroque opera on stage.
He died on 17 August 1736 at the, near Coincy, France, and was buried on 31 October 1736 at Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
He was succeeded by his son Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley.
His daughter Elizabeth ran away at a very young age and married Anthony Henley in 1728.
Lord Hervey wrote" he was a man of great family and great quality, rough, proud, hard, and obstinate, with excellent good natural parts, but so uncultivated that he was totally ignorant of every branch of knowledge but his profession.
He was haughty and tyrannical, but honourable, gallant, observant of his word; equally incapable of flattering a prince, bending to a minister, or lying to anybody he had to deal with."
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, KB, PC, FRS( 8 April 1649 – 24 September 1710) was a British nobleman and diplomat, known as Sir Charles Berkeley from 1661 to 1679 and styled Viscount Dursley from 1679 to 1698.
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury( later styled Aylesbury) and 3rd Earl of Elgin( 1656 – 16 December 1741) was an English politician and memoirist.
He was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, and Lady Diana Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
His" Memoirs", which were not published until long after his death, are a valuable source for English history in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Question: Who lived longer, Charles Berkeley, 2Nd Earl Of Berkeley or Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero?
Answer: Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero