John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton elephants in United Kingdom

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
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Type	private
Address	Portesham manor
Place	Portesham
District	county of Dorset
Region	southwest England
Country	United Kingdom
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John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton elephants, located at Portesham manor, in Portesham, United Kingdom .

Comments / picturesJohn Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family. He and Sir George Carteret were the founders of the Province of New Jersey, a British colony in North America that would eventually become the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Berkeley married Christian or Christiana Riccard, daughter of Sir Andrew Riccard, a wealthy London merchant, in the East India Company, and later Berkeley became director of East India Company, residing at Portesham manor in Dorset, which was inherited by his wife from her father.

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Koehl, Dan (2025). John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3308. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berkeley,_1st_Baron_Berkeley_of_Stratton
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England By Caroline Grigson (ISBN B018ZK17T4)

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