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 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 legendary arts review, X magazine.^[1]

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 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,^[2] aged 89.

References

1. ^ “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 [1]
2. ^ 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

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Seymour Berry	Viscount Camrose (disclaimed for life) 1995	Succeeded by Adrian Berry

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Name	Hartwell, Michael Berry, Baron
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Date of birth	18 May 1911
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Date of death	3 April 2001
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