BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM
\bˈɜːkli], \bˈɜːkli], \b_ˈɜː_k_l_i]\
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(about 1610-1677), was an English courtier, who in 1642 was appointed Governor of Virginia. He continued in this office, with the exception of an intermission during the Cromwellian regime, until 1677. His gloating remark over the colony's backward condition in education and a free press is well known, and his oppression evoked a caustic comment even from Charles II. His inefficiency in conducting the relations with the Indians led to an armed uprising in 1676 under Nathaniel Bacon. This was suppressed after Bacon's death, but Berkeley was soon recalled.
By John Franklin Jameson
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