Viscount Kemsley


Viscount Kemsley is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1945 for the press baron Gomer Berry.
Created a Baronet, of Dropmore in the County of Buckingham, on 25 January 1928, in the baronetage of the United Kingdom then, in 1936, raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Kemsley, of Farnham Royal in the County of Buckingham, Berry was the younger brother of the industrialist Henry Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, and of fellow newspaper magnate William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his uncle in 1999.
The Conservative politician the [Hon.] Sir Anthony Berry was the youngest son of the first Viscount Kemsley.
The family seat is Church Hill Farm, near Brockenhurst, Hampshire.

Viscounts Kemsley (1945)

The heir apparent is the present viscount's son, Hon. Luke Gomer Berry.

Line of succession

(James) Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley