Viscount Camrose

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Viscount Camrose is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 20 January 1941 for William Berry, who had on 19 June 1929 been created Baron Camrose. Before this, on 4 July 1921, he had been created a baronet, of Hackwood Park, Hampshire.

The first three Viscounts all headed The Daily Telegraph at one point, the first having purchased it from the 1st Viscount Burnham, but in the 1980s they lost control to Conrad Black.

The first Viscount was the younger brother of the first and last Baron 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 eldest son Adrian succeeded.

Baronets of Hackwood Park (

• Sir William Ewart Berry, 1st Baronet (1879-1954) (created 1st Baron Camrose in 1929)

Barons Camrose (

• William Ewart Berry, 1st Baron Camrose (1879-1954) (created 1st Viscount Camrose in 1939)

Viscounts Camrose (

• William 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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