sentences:  Promoted to commander on 19 December 1810, he was given command of the sixth-rate HMS "Vestal".After being promoted to captain on 7 June 1814 and, having become a Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex on 18 June 1824, he took command of the fifth-rate HMS "Semiramis", flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Cork in May 1828.Entering politics, Berkeley became Whig Member of Parliament for Gloucester in the 1831 general election.