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Viscount Camrose - Definition and Overview

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Viscount Camrose is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1941 for William Berry, who had in 1929 been created Baron Camrose.The first three Viscounts all headed The Daily Telegraph at one point, the first having purchased it from the 2nd Baron Burnham, but in the 1980s they lost control to Conrad Black.

The first Viscount was the younger brother of the first and last Lord Buckland, an industrialist, and the elder brother of the 1st Viscount Kemsley, a fellow press lord.

The third Viscount disclaimed the Peerage in 1995, but had been created a life peer as Baron Hartwell in 1968. At his death in 2001, his son Adrian succeeded.

Viscounts Camrose (1939)

  • William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954)
  • Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (1909-1995)
  • William Michael Berry, 3rd Viscount Camrose (1911-2001) (disclaimed 1995)
  • Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (b. 1937)

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