Maurice Frederick Berkeley, first baron FitzHardinge

(1788-1867)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Berkeley Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge (1788-1867) 1st Baron Fitzhardinge Admiral DNB: Berkeley, Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge, first Baron Fitzhardinge of Bristol (1788–1867), naval officer and politician LBT ID: LdFitzh1b	B/BAP: 1788-01-03 DIED: 1867-10-17
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
The illegitimate son of the fifth earl of Berkeley; he was a naval officer, Whig MP for Gloucester (1831-33), and a naval lord, raised to the peerage in 1861.
REFERENCES TO Maurice Frederick Berkeley, first baron FitzHardinge: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 3 November 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ n3 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VII: 1828 Found 1: ¶ n3