Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell

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William Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell MBE TD (born May 18, 1911 in Merthyr Tydfil , Wales , † April 2, 2001 in London , England ) was a British journalist and newspaper publisher who was a Life Peer member in 1968 as a result of the Life Peerages Act 1958 of the House of Lords . After the death of his older brother William Ewert Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose , who died childless , he inherited his hereditary title of nobility ( Hereditary Peerage ) as Viscount Camrose on February 15, 1995 , but shortly thereafter renounced this title due to his life peerage.

Life

Origin, journalist and World War II

Berry was the son of the journalist and newspaper publisher William Ewert Berry , who was among other things long - time editor -in- chief of The Sunday Times as well as editor-in-chief and owner of The Daily Telegraph and who for his services to the Baronet, of Hackwood Park , 1929 to the Baron Camrose of and finally 1941 was raised to Viscount Camrose .

Berry himself completed after school attendance at Christ Church at the University of Oxford , which he graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then took up a job as a journalist and was initially between 1934 and 1935 editor of the weekly newspaper The Glasgow Sunday and from 1937 to 1939 business editor of the Financial Times , of which his father was chairman.

During this time he volunteered at the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) , a yeomanry unit of the British Army Territorial Army , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1938 and captain in 1940 . After Britain entered the Second World War , he was promoted to major and was mentioned twice in the war report ( Mentioned in Despatches ) for his military services . Most recently he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944 and in 1945 made a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD).

Publisher, editor-in-chief and member of the House of Lords

After the end of the war, Berry resumed his work as a journalist and also completed postgraduate studies at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford, which he completed in 1954 with a Master of Arts (MA).

After his father's death on June 15, 1954, he succeeded him as chairman of the board of the newspaper and magazine publisher Amalgamated Press Ltd. and held this position until 1959. In addition, he was also as successor to his father between 1954 and 1987 Chairman of the Board and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Telegraph and between 1961 and 1987 also Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Sunday Telegraph , which on February 5, 1961 as the first British Sunday newspaper since 1921 was re-established. He also acted as a trustee of the news and press agency Reuters between 1962 and 1989 and was director and deputy chairman of the board of the newly founded television station London Weekend Television (LWT) from 1968 to 1989 . He was also director of Telegraph plc until 1995 .

Berry became a life peer with the title Baron Hartwell , of Peterborough Court in the City of London, through a letters patent dated January 19, 1968 , in the House of Lords , to which he belonged until his death.

After the death of his older brother William Ewert Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, who died childless, he followed him on February 15, 1995 in his hereditary title ( Hereditary Peerage ) as Viscount Camrose , of Hackwood Park in the County of Southampton, but renounced briefly then on this title of nobility due to his life peerage.

Berry was married to Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith, the younger daughter of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead , since January 7, 1936 . This marriage resulted in four children, including the science journalist and writer Adrian Michael Berry , who inherited the title of nobility he had rejected after the death of his father.

Publications

  • Party Choice , 1948
  • William Camrose, Giant of Fleet Street , 1992

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predecessor Office successor
John Seymour Berry Viscount Camrose
(waived)
1995
Adrian Michael Berry
(from 2001)