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
Berkeley Castle around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest. This was subsequently held by three generations of the first Berkeley family, all called Roger de Berkeley, and rebuilt by them in the first half of the 12th century. The last Roger de Berkeley was dispossessed in 1152 for withholding his allegiance from the House of Plantagenet during the conflict of The Anarchy, and the feudal barony of Berkeley was then granted to Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy burgess of Bristol and supporter of the Plantagenets. He was the founder of the Berkeley family which still holds the castle. In 1153–54, Fitzharding