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 | | Berry, William Ewert, first Viscount Camrose 1879-1954, newspaper proprietor, was born at Merthyr Tydfil 23 June 1879, the second of the three sons, all to be raised to the peerage, of Alderman John Mathias Berry, estate agent, by his wife, Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas Rowe, of Pembroke Dock. |
 | | At the age of fourteen he was given his opportunity as a cub journalist on the Merthyr Times by W. Hadley [qv.]. |
 | | In 1958 they disposed of the Amalgamated Press to Cecil H. King of Daily Mirror Holdings, who renamed the group Fleetway Publications, Ltd. A portrait in oils of Camrose by Maurice Codner is in the offices of the Daily Telegraph; and a memorial tablet by Sir Albert Richardson in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. |
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