Sir William Berkeley

(noun)

A colonial governor of Virginia and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by King Charles I of England, of whom he was a favorite.

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Examples of Sir William Berkeley in the following topics:

  • Virginia

    • Sir William Berkeley, the governor of Virginia from 1642–1652 and 1660–1677, tried to push for diversification in the economic activities of the colony.
    • Berkeley remained popular after his first administration and returned to the governorship in 1660.
    • Berkeley successfully established autocratic authority over the colony.
    • To protect this power, Berkeley refused new legislative elections for 14 years.
    • Subsequently, Berkeley managed to eliminate the remaining rebels.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    • About a thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans.
    • Berkeley had refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements, so others took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the capital.
    • Outnumbered, Berkeley retreated across the river.
    • Governor Berkeley returned to power.
    • Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.

  • Peace Overtures and the Evacuation of Philadelphia

    • The commission was headed by the Earl of Carlisle and included William Eden, a British statesman and diplomat, and George Johnstone, former Governor of West Florida.
    • Following France's entry into the war, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton was ordered by the government to abandon Philadelphia and defend New York City, now vulnerable to French naval power .
    • Portrait of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1769

  • The Glorious Revolution

    • In February 1689, William and his wife became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II of England .
    • Portrait of King James II & VII, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,
    • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
    • Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner, 1852
    • William of Orange successfully invaded England with a Dutch fleet in the Glorious Revolution of 1688

  • William of Orange and the Grand Alliance

    • Yet to William III France's growing strength made war inevitable.
    • However, before the War of the Spanish Succession was even declared, William died.
    • By the same token, Anne continued William's policies and many leading statesmen of William's later years remained in office, which turned out fundamental to the success of the Grand Alliance in the early stages of the war.
    • King William III of England, portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1680s, National Galleries, Scotland.
    • Explain William's stake in the War of the Spanish Succession and the goals of the Grand Alliance.

  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    • In 1686, Sir Edmund Andros, the former governor of New York, was appointed as Dominion governor.
    • With the birth of his son and potential successor James III in June 1688, some Whigs and Tories set aside their political differences and conspired to replace James with his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange.
    • This was particularly problematic for Massachusetts because its long frontier with New France was exposed to French and Indian raids with the 1689 outbreak of King William's War.
    • The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose charter was issued in 1691 and began operating in 1692 under governor Sir William Phips, combined the territories of both colonies, along with the islands south of Cape Cod (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands) that had been part of New York.
    • Darley, William L.

  • Data basics exercises

    • (b) In a study of the relationship between socio-economic class and unethical behavior, 129 University of California undergraduates at Berkeley were asked to identify themselves as having low or high social-class by comparing themselves to others with the most (least) money, most (least) education, and most (least) respected jobs.
    • Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist who worked on a data set that contained sepal length and width, and petal length and width from three species of iris flowers (setosa, versicolor and virginica).

  • The Glorious Revolution

    • By September, it became clear that William would invade England.
    • William arrived on November 5.
    • Anne declared that she would temporarily waive her right to the crown should Mary die before William and Mary refused to be made queen without William as king.
    • James II King of England and VII King of Scots, King of Ireland and Duke of Normandy, painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1683.
    • Painting: Sir James Thornhill; Photo: James Brittain.

  • Enantioselective Aldol Reactions

    • Heathcock (Berkeley) and is drawn in brackets.
    • Heathcock (Berkeley), in which all four possible aldol diastereomers were selectively prepared from the reaction of (S)-4-trimethylsiloxy-5,5-dimethyl-3-hexanone with an assortment of aldehydes, as summarized in the first diagram below.

  • Colonies in Crisis

    • They arrested dominion officials as a protest against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.
    • Darley, William L.