Career
He was the elder brother of newspaper magnates William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley. Berry worked for his father"s business before becoming a protégé of industrialist Doctorate. A. Thomas (later 1st Viscount Rhondda) in 1915. He took on more responsibility when Thomas joined the cabinet, and within three years he was a director of over 60 companies.
He subsequently became chairman of GKN in 1927.
Invested as a Knight of Grace, Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (KGStJ), he held the office of High Sheriff of Brecknockshire in 1924. He was elevated to the peerage as Baron Buckland, of Bwlch in the County of Brecon, on 16 July 1926.
A memorial in his memory was erected in Merthyr Tydfil, outside the library.
