Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose

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Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (born June 15, 1937 , † April 18, 2016 ) was a British peer , journalist and author , especially of popular science literature.

Life

Adrian Michael Berry was the first son of Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell (1911-2001), the younger son of William Berry , 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954), born. His grandfather William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, had acquired the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph in 1927 together with his brother Gomer Berry , 1st Viscount Kemsley (1883–1968), and Edward Iliffe , 1st Baron Iliffe . His mother was Lady Pamela Smith, the daughter of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead .

Adrian Berry attended Eton College in Berkshire . He studied Modern History (Modern History) at Christ Church College of Oxford University . Berry started as a journalist with the Wallsall Observer in the West Midlands and the Birmingham Post , before moving to Investor's Chronicle . After spending a year on a screenplay for a thriller about industrial espionage, he went to the United States for three years , writing first for the New York Herald Tribune and then for Time Magazine . As assistant to Anthony Michaelis , then editor of the science department at the Daily Telegraph , he was one of the journalists in 1969 who reported live from Houston about the moon landing .

In 1970 he joined the Daily Telegraph , where he first briefly in the editing work of the news departments and the Parliament column (parliamentary sketch) wrote. At the Daily Telegraph he then became a member of the initially three-person science editorial team under Michaelis. From 1977 to 1997 he was a science correspondent for the Daily Telegraph . He also wrote the monthly column Sky at Night , later The Night Sky , for the Daily Telegraph in his later years . After retiring as a science correspondent, he became "Consulting Editor" for the "Science" section of the Daily Telegraph . In addition to his Sky at Night column, he also wrote a monthly column for Astronomy Now magazine . In his last years, climate change was one of his favorite topics.

Berry wrote on numerous scientific subjects; he was particularly interested in computer technology, which was still young at the time . He also wrote about supernovae , asteroids , tsunamis and prehistoric animals. He presented many of his topics in popular science . His columns were so successful with readers that some of them were also published in book form. Berry was the author of a total of 15 popular science books. They include: The Next Ten Thousand Years: A Vision of Man's Future in the Universe (1974), The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes (1977), and The Next 500 Years: Life in the Coming Millennium (1995). He also wrote two spy thrillers .

He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society , the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society . He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a think tank chaired by Nigel Lawson , who is one of the leading representatives of the organized climate change denial scene.

family

When his father died on April 3, 2001, he inherited the title of 4th Viscount Camrose , 4th Baron Camrose , and 4th Baronet.

Berry was married to the American Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, the daughter of Cyrus Sulzberger . Her family is a co-owner of the New York Times . The marriage resulted in two children, the daughter Jessica (* 1968) and the son Jonathan (* 1970), who inherited him in 2016 as the 5th Viscount.

literature

  • Adrian Berry. The big vision. About the future of man in the universe . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1978. ISBN 3453008901 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Viscount Camrose - obituary ; Obituary; in: The Daily Telegraph, April 19. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose on thepeerage.com , accessed September 17, 2016.
  3. ^ New Chairman Of GWPF Academic Advisory Council Press release of the Global Warming Policy Foundation dated January 4, 2016. Accessed April 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Nigel Lawson's climate-change denial charity 'intimidated' environmental expert ( Memento from May 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); The Independent dated May 11, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming . BBC News, December 6, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell
(title waiver 1995) 		Viscount Camrose
2001-2016 		Jonathan Berry
personal data
SURNAME Berry, Adrian, 4th Viscount Camrose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berry, Adrian Michael, 4th Viscount Camrose (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1937
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2016