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William Berry (genealogist)

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219: 172:, with exception being taken to Berry identifying himself on the title-page as "registering clerk in the College of Arms". Berry consequently brought an action for libel against the publishers of the magazine, 65:. This was a carefully compiled family history, with beautifully engraved coats of arms, but did not receive much support, and after the issue of the fourth number, which terminated with an account of the 34:
William Berry was born on 5 November 1772, the son of William Berry and his wife Elizabeth. In his early career, 1793–1809, he was employed as a writing clerk to the registrar of the
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Berry married Elizabeth Windsor (1776–1851), daughter of Other Windsor and his wife, Susanna de Young, on 24 July 1796, at the church of
185: 351: 346: 73:, published in 1816, met with more success, and a second and improved edition appeared in 1840. This work was dedicated to 181: 192:, the jury, without hearing any rebutting evidence, almost immediately returned a verdict in favour of the defendants. 177: 234: 336: 321: 311: 331: 204:, London. The couple had five daughters and three sons. Berry died at his son's residence, Spencer Place, 168: 326: 316: 103:
Perhaps the writings by which Berry is best known are his county genealogies, published in small
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volumes. This was a valuable heraldic work, incorporating much of the contents of
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The History of the Island of Guernsey, compiled from the collections of Henry Budd
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Boase, G. C.; Lloyd, Myfanwy (revised) (2020) . "Berry, William (1772–1851)".
295: 223: 151: 108: 156: 23: 58: 131: 125: 222: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 208:, on 2 July 1851, aged 77, having survived his wife by two months. 39: 205: 54: 26:, known for various publications on family history and heraldry. 139: 119: 89: 38:. On his retirement from that post, he lived for some time in 145: 104: 184:
on 1 November 1830, when, although Berry was represented by
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Encyclopedia Heraldica, or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
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Genealogia Antiqua, or Mythological and Classical Tables
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A Genealogical Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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genealogist
College of Arms
Guernsey
England
Kennington
dukes of Rutland
Lord Grenville
numbers
quarto
Joseph Edmondson
folio
guineas
Kent
Sussex
Hampshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Surrey
Essex
Hertfordshire
lithography
The Gentleman's Magazine
J. B. Nichols & Son
Court of King's Bench
Lord Tenterden
Henry Brougham
Lord Chancellor
St Luke Old Street
Brixton
public domain

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