1. Reginald Cheyne Berkeley was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a writer of stage plays, then a screenwriter in Hollywood.
15 Facts About Reginald Berkeley
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Reginald Berkeley died in Los Angeles from pneumonia after an operation.
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Reginald Berkeley's son Humphry Berkeley was a Conservative MP in the United Kingdom.
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Reginald Berkeley was educated privately and at Bedford Modern School.
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Reginald Berkeley later went to Fiji where his father was a prominent lawyer in Suva; then to Auckland, New Zealand, where he studied at Auckland University College and passed the Barristers Examination of the University of New Zealand.
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Reginald Berkeley was admitted to the Bar of Fiji and New Zealand in 1912, and to the Middle Temple on 2 July 1919.
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Reginald Berkeley was a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of the territorials in New Zealand from 1911 to 1913.
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Reginald Berkeley served in World War I as a captain in the Rifle Brigade.
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Reginald Berkeley was elected as Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central at the 1922 general election, winning the seat with a majority of only 22 votes over the sitting Conservative MP Albert Atkey.
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Reginald Berkeley was re-elected in another two-way contest in 1923, but did not contest the 1924 general election.
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Reginald Berkeley was defeated again in Aberdeen and Kincardine Central at the 1931 election.
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Reginald Berkeley's stage plays include The Lady with the Lamp, based on the life of Florence Nightingale and starring Edith Evans in the title role, and The Man I Killed, which was adapted for the screen as Broken Lullaby the following year.
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Reginald Berkeley had married Gwendoline Cock in 1914 and Clara Hildegarde Digby in 1926.
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Reginald Berkeley died in 1935 in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles aged 44 from pneumonia following a major operation.
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Reginald Berkeley was residing at 606 North Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills.