The Right Honourable
The Lord Hartwell
MBE
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
15 February 1995 – 11 November 1999 [1]
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Camrose
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as a life peer
19 January 1968 – 3 April 2001
Personal details
Born18 May 1911
Died3 April 2001(2001-04-03) (aged 89)
Alma materEton College
Christ Church, Oxford

William Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell MBE (18 May 1911 – 3 April 2001), was a British newspaper proprietor and journalist.

Early life and education

Berry was the second son of William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and his wife Mary Agnes Corns. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Career

Berry followed his elder brother Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, as Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers. He remained in this role until the takeover by Conrad Black in 1986. He was also the backer behind the arts review, X magazine.[2]

Berry was awarded a life peerage as Baron Hartwell, of Peterborough Court in the City of London on 19 January 1968.[3] He succeeded his elder brother as 3rd Viscount Camrose in 1995, but disclaimed the title.[4]

Marriage and family

Lord Hartwell married Lady Pamela Smith (1915–1982), daughter of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. They had four children together:[5]

Death

Lord Hartwell died in Westminster, London,[6] on 3 April 2001 at the age of 89. He was succeeded in the viscountcy, the Camrose barony and baronetcy by his elder son, Adrian. The Hartwell barony became extinct.

Coat of arms of Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell
Crest
A griffin sejant reguardant Sable collared Or.
Escutcheon
Argent three bars Gules over all a pile Ermine.
Supporters
Dexter a stag, sinister a wolf, Proper both collared Or and standing on a compartment with a well between paving to the dexter and grass to the sinister Proper. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Disclaimed on 14 March 1995
  2. ↑ "David Wright's and Patrick Swift's legendary X set the common agenda for a generation of European painters, writers and dramatists."-Michael Schmidt (founder of Carcanet Press, editor of Poetry Nation Review and Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow) wrote in The Guardian in 2006
  3. ↑ "No. 44507". The London Gazette. 19 January 1968. p. 759.
  4. ↑ "No. 53981". The London Gazette. 14 March 1995. p. 3955.
  5. ↑ The Peerage, entry for Lord Hartwell
  6. ↑ "Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006". Archived from the original on 4 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
  7. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
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