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William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose

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G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,
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by his son Lord Hartwell. Illustrated biography with black-and-white photographic plates and includes an index.
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Berry died in 1954 and was succeeded in the viscountcy, barony and baronetcy by his eldest son, Seymour.
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Berry married Mary Agnes Corns in 1905. They had eight children together:
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Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 294.
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Hon. Rodney Mathias Berry (29 April 1917 – 10 March 1963)
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In 1926, the Berry brothers/Allied Newspapers purchased
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Berry bought out his partners in 1937 and amalgamated
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Coat of arms of William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
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contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Camrose
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The Right Honourable
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Merthyr Tydfil
Wales
Advertising World
The War Illustrated
Western Mail
Allied Newspapers
Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose
Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell
Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
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newspaper
Merthyr Tydfil
Wales
journalist
Advertising World
First World War
The War Illustrated
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland
The Sunday Times
editor-in-chief
Financial Times
Sir Edward Iliffe
Allied Newspapers
Daily Dispatch
Manchester Evening Chronicle

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