Stoke Gifford Hall (later "Stoke Park"), as re-built in 1533 by Sir Richard Berkeley (1531–1604). Drawn by Johannes Kip in 1707, when it belonged to John Symes Berkeley, Esquire, as stated by the caption above which displays the arms of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford. Published in Britannia Illustrata 1724 editionStoke Park House, now known as the Dower House, as re-built in 1750 by Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
John Symes Berkeley (1663–1736) of Stoke Gifford near Bristol was an English Member of Parliament.
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He was born the second son of Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford and inherited the family estates on the death of his elder brother in 1685, including Stoke Park. He later exploited the rich coal deposits beneath the estate and commissioned Sir James Thornhill to rebuild a summerhouse at the end of the terrace of Stoke Park House as an orangery.
He was twice elected to represent the constituency of Gloucestershire in the Parliament between 1710 and 1715.
He died at Bath in 1736 and was buried at Stoke Gifford. He had married twice; firstly in 1695, Susan, the daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Fowles and the widow of Jonathan Cope and secondly in 1717, Elizabeth, the daughter and coheiress of Walter Norborne of Calne, Wiltshire and widow of Edward Devereux, 8th Viscount Hereford, with whom he had a son, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, a future Governor of Virginia and a daughter, Elizabeth (Duchess of Beaufort), the wife of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort of Badminton House in Gloucestershire. On Norborne's death in Virginia, Stoke Park House passed to Elizabeth, then Dowager Duchess, and became the Dower House of the Dukes Beaufort.[2]
^"BERKELEY, John Symes (1663 - 11 December 1736), of Stoke Gifford, nr. Bristol, Glos". History of Parliament. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
^Historic England, "Stoke Park (1000129)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 August 2018
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