Son of the fourth earl (d. 1755); he was a colonel in the British Army and was Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 1766.

REFERENCES TO Frederick Augustus Berkeley, fifth earl of Berkeley:

Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 3 November 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)