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Post by tugnutter on Nov 21, 2009 12:16:42 GMT 1
i notice there are 2 new plaques, one either side of the plinth of the statue one dedicated to william ewert berry, and the other to james gomer berry
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Post by merthyrlad on Nov 21, 2009 13:07:53 GMT 1
BERRY (FAMILY), Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley , industrialists and newspaper proprietors .
All three sons of JOHN MATHIAS BERRY (b. 2 May 1847 in Camrose, Pemb. ; d. 9 Jan. 1917 ) and his wife Mary Ann (née Rowe , of Pembroke Dock ), who moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1874 , were created peers . J. M. Berry worked on the railway and as an accountant before becoming an estate agent and auctioneer in 1894 . He was the mayor when King George V visited the town in 1912 . The foundation stone of a new Salvation Army Citadel in Merthyr was laid in memory of him in 1936 and he is also commemorated by the J.M. Berry Technical College which was built by his eldest son.
James Gomer Berry
James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley GBE (7 May 1883 – 6 February 1968) was a Welsh newspaper publisher.
Berry was the third of three brothers from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He originally co-owned The Daily Telegraph with his second brother William and Baron Burnham.
He founded Kemsley Newspapers, which owned The Sunday Times, The Daily Sketch and The Sunday Graphic amongst its titles.
His youngest son, Conservative politician the Honourable Sir Anthony Berry, was killed by the IRA in the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing.
Honours
Berry was created a baronet in 1928, and was appointed as an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in 1931. In 1936, he was created Baron Kemsley, of Farnham Royal in the County of Buckingham, and raised to Viscount Kemsley, of Dropmore in the County of Buckingham, in 1945. He succeeded upon his death by his eldest son Lionel.
In 1959, he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for "political and public service".
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