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Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose

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The Right Honourable
The Viscount Camrose
Official portrait, 2022
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 March 2023
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byOffice established
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as an elected hereditary peer
6 April 2022
By-election6 April 2022
Preceded byThe 3rd Baron Rotherwick
Personal details
Born
Jonathan William Berry
Political partyConservative
Parent(s)Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose
Marina Beatrice Sulzberger

Jonathan William Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose (born 26 February 1970) is a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician.

Early life

Camrose was born in 1970, the only son of Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose and his wife Marina Beatrice Sulzberger. He is a great-grandson of the newspaper publisher William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and of the politician F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead.

Camrose succeeded to the viscountcy upon the death of his father in 2016.

Parliamentary career

See also: Sunak ministry

In a March 2022 by-election, Camrose was elected to replace Lord Rotherwick in the House of Lords following Rotherwick's retirement in February 2022.[1] He made his maiden speech on 27 June 2022.[2]

In March 2023, Rishi Sunak appointed Camrose a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology where he is Minister for AI and Intellectual Property.[3] Viscount Camrose became the second hereditary peer to be appointed to a ministerial role by Sunak.[4]

Marriage and children

Camrose married Aurélie Molin in 1996. They have four children:[5]

  • Hon Olivia Grace Berry (born 14 May 1998)
  • Hon Hugo William Berry (born 2000), heir apparent to the viscountcy.
  • Hon Charlotte Julia Berry (born 2001)
  • Hon Tobias Furneaux Berry (born 2003)

References

  1. ^ "Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, March 2022: result" (PDF). parliament.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL] Volume 823: debated on Monday 27 June 2022". UK Parliament. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Viscount Camrose". Gov.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  4. ^ Hunter, Ross (7 March 2023). "Hereditary peer given ministerial role within year of entering House of Lords". The National.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Camrose
2016–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Hugo William Berry
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2022–present 		Incumbent
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