Grantley Berkeley and afterwards transferred to the 82nd Regiment of Foot. Berkeley sat as Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West from 1832 to 1852 as a Whig. In 1836 he proposed the admission of ladies to the gallery of the House of Commons; this was granted in 1841. After 1852 he devoted himself largely to field sports and writing. Berkeley was the author of a number of books, including "Berkeley Castle", "Sandron Hall, or the Days of Queen Anne" (1840), and "My Life and Recollections", 4 volumes, (1865–66). In 1836, Berkeley assaulted magazine publisher James Fraser over a review he published in
HMS Berkeley Castle (K387) Barclay Curle shipyard in Glasgow on 23 April 1943, launched on 19 August and commissioned on 18 November 1943. She served as a convoy escort until the end of the Second World War. She was then placed in reserve at Harwich. She suffered serious damage when she capsized in dock at Sheerness during severe flooding in February 1953 but was refloated and repaired. She was in reserve at Sheerness until 1956. She arrived at Thos W Ward Grays in Essex on 29 February 1956 for scrapping. HMS Berkeley Castle (K387) HMS "Berkeley Castle" was a Castle-class corvette of the United