City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) Officers - Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster (Paperback)

Chapters: Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, Edmund Hoyle Vestey, Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 12th Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (12 July 1909 15 February 1995) was a British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor. John Berry was born in Surrey on 12 July 1909, the eldest son of William Berry, later first Viscount Camrose and first Baronet Berry of Hackwood Park, and Mary Agnes Berry, nee Corns. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was tutored by Sir Roy Harrod. Berry was Deputy Chairman of The Daily Telegraph 1939-87 and Vice Chairman of Amalgamated Press 1942-59. On 10 March 1941 he was elected Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Hitchin in the by-election held after Sir Arnold Wilson was killed on active service. He held his seat until 1945, when it was won by Philip Asterley Jones (Labour). Coterminously, he served in the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders). He saw active service in North Africa and Italy, rose to the rank of Major, was mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Decoration (TD). He succeeded to his father's viscountcy and baronetcy on 15 June 1954. At the age of seventy-six, and following a discreet friendship of more than thirty years, Lord Camrose married the Honourable Joan Yarde-Buller, daughter of Sir John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston and Jessie Yarde-Buller, nee Smithers, Baroness Churston, who was perhaps better known by her stage name Denise Orme. Lady Camrose had twice been previously married, first to Loel Guinness, and secondly to Prince Aly Khan, son and heir apparent of Aga Khan III. Prince Aly was disinherite...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1078253