Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell

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

Michael Berry was the second son of the 1st Viscount Camrose. He succeeded his brother Seymour, the 2nd Viscount, 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 educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and married Lady Pamela Smith, a daughter of F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. They had two sons Adrian, the 4th Viscount and Nicholas.

He was a friend of Randolph Churchill, and Neville Chamberlain believed that he was responsible for some of the criticism of the Prime Minister which appeared in The Daily Telegraph.

Berry was awarded a life peerage as Baron Hartwell, of Peterborough Court in the City of London, in 1968 and disclaimed the Viscountcy following his brother's death in 1995.

He died in Westminster, London,^[1] aged 89.

References

1. ^ Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006

• Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Hitler - British Policies and Policy 1933-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p.402, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

External links

• Deedes, ‘Berry, (William) Michael, Baron Hartwell (1911–2001)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2005; online edn, Oct 2005 , accessed 11 Jan 2008

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