Viscount Camrose

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Viscount Camrose of Hackwood Park in the County of Southampton is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award, subordinate and other titles

The title was created on January 20, 1941 for the newspaper tycoon William Berry, 1st Baron Camrose .

He was already on July 4, 1921 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom to Baronet , of Hackwood Park in the County of Southampton, and on June 19, 1929 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Baron Camrose , of Long Cross in the County of Surrey .

His second son Michael Berry was raised on January 19, 1968 for life ( Life Peerage ) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Baron Hartwell , of Peterborough Court in the City of London . From his childless brother, the 2nd Viscount, he inherited the Viscount title and its subordinate title in 1995, but immediately renounced them, so that they were suspended until his death in 2001. His son Adrian Berry followed as 4th Viscount.

List of Viscounts Camrose (1941)

Title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the uncle of the current title holder Nicholas Berry (* 1942).

Individual evidence

  1. a b The London Gazette : No. 35057, p. 559 , January 28, 1941.

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