John Berkeley, Lord Fitzharding

In the north ambulatory of Westminster Abbey are the graves of John Berkeley, Lord Fitzharding and his wife Barbara. He was the younger son of Sir Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzharding in the peerage of Ireland and his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir William Godolphin. John succeeded his brother Maurice as 4th Viscount in 1690 but had no male heir and his title became extinct. The inscriptions read:

Here lyeth the body of John Lord Viscount Fitzharding of Bearehaven and Baron Berkeley of Rathdowne in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was one of the four tellers of the Exchequer and Treasurer of ye chamber to Her Majestie Queen Anne and Custos Rotulorum of Somersetshire who departed this life the 19th day of December 1712 in the 63rd year of his age

His coat of arms appear at the head of the stone.

Here lyeth the body of Barbarah Villiers, Viscountess Fitzharding, Governess to His late Royall Highness the Duke of Glocester, daughter to the Hon. Sr.Edward and the Hon. Lady Frances Villiers and who died September 19th 1708 in her 52nd year.

His brother Charles Berkeley, Earl of Falmouth, was buried in the Abbey on 22nd June 1665 and his brother Sir William Berkeley, governor of Portsmouth and Vice Admiral who was killed fighting the Dutch, was buried in August 1666. Only Charles' name is recorded on a stone in St John the Baptist's chapel.

His sister Elizabeth was married to John Bridgeman (two sons) and was buried in March 1664 and his sister Jane died unmarried aged 77 and was buried in the south transept in June 1718. Neither has a monument or gravestone.