 George Cranfield Berkeley

Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818) was a highly experienced, popular, yet controversial naval officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.Serving on several ships, Berkeley saw action at all three Battles of Ushant, commanded fleets in the West Indies and off Ireland and governed the supply routes to Portugal and Spain which kept Wellington's armies in the field during the Peninsula War.