Background
Alfred Berkeley was the son of Canon R. Fitzharding Berkeley, rector of Saint Philip, Barbados.
Alfred Berkeley was the son of Canon R. Fitzharding Berkeley, rector of Saint Philip, Barbados.
Educated at Harrison College and Codrington College, he was ordained deacon 1885 and priest in 1886. He became curate of Saint George, Antigua and Barbuda. In 1887 he became vicar of All Saints, Antigua and Barbuda, and in 1888 curate of Saint Philip, Barbados.
From 1891 to 1901 he was vicar of Holy Innocents, Barbados.
Rector of Saint Philip from 1901 to 1907 and dean and rector of Saint Michael, Barbados from 1907 to 1917, Berkeley was elected to be bishop and was consecrated in Saint Michael’s Cathedral, Barbados on 12 August 1917. On his retirement as Bishop of Barbados in 1927 he was elected as the first bishop of the Diocese of the Windward Islands, which since its formation in 1877 had been administered by the Bishop of Barbados.
He was also appointed Rector of Street George"s Cathedral in Kingstown, Street Vincent. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.