The Honourable Mrs Craven Berkeley
(1805-1897)
26 July 1861

Volume 4,  page 281, sitting number 5193.

Born on 25 December 1805, Charlotte Onslow was the daughter of General Denzil Onslow of Stoughton House, Huntingdonshire, and his second wife Sophia née Lushington. 

She was baptised on 6 January 1806 at Roxton in Bedfordshire. 

She married firstly George Newton, son of Samuel Newton of Croxton, Cambridgeshire. 

On 27 August 1845 at Otterbourne in Hampshire she married secondly, the Honourable Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, the last of the twelve children of Frederick Augustus Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley, and his wife, the former maidservant Mary née Cole.

The Honourable Craven FitzHardinge Berkeley was three times the MP (Whig) for Cheltenham (1832-1847; 1848-1848; and 1852-1855). 

He died, aged 50, on 1 July 1855 at Frankfort in Germany ‘where he had been detained by illness, while on his way to the German Spas. The honourable gentleman had been in a declining state of health for some time past, arising from induration of the liver and other causes’ (Cheltenham Journal, 7 July 1855). 

The Honourable Charlotte Berkeley died, aged 91, on 25 January 1897 at 7 Clifton Terrace, Winchester. She left an estate valued at £28,362. Her executor was George Onslow Newton, son of her first marriage.