Berry, Robert
Variant namesEpithet: of Add MS 37726
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001346.0x000137
Epithet: of Add MS 35530
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001346.0x000136
Robert Berry was born 22nd April 1868, the son of John Berry an advocate from Tayfield, and his wife, Margaret Higgins Burn-Murdoch. He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, and in 1902 he married Dorothy, daughter of Arthur Bryans of Woodmansterne, Surrey. Robert was a railway engineer who during his career worked on Waverley Station, Edinburgh, and the Highland Railway that ran between Carrbridge and Inverness. He also spent time as a civil engineer working on the Madras and South Mahratta Railway, India 1896-1913. During the First World War he served as a Captain with the Northumberland Fusiliers 1914-1919. He was wounded and from 1919 onwards he lived at Chesterhill House, Newport on Tay, Fife, until about 1958 when he was moved to Seamills Cottage, Newport on Tay. He died 27th February 1960.
From the guide to the Robert Berry Collection, c 1900, (University of Dundee)
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| creatorOf | Robert Berry Collection, c 1900 | University of Dundee | |
| referencedIn | (XXVIII. ff. 296). 12 Sept.-31 Dec. 1783.includes:f. 1 Colonel James Seton: Letters to Sir R. M. Keith: 1783, 1784. ff. 3, 47, 160 Nathaniel Green, Consul at Trieste and (1787) at Nice: Letters to Sir R. M. Keith: 1775 -1790. ff. 5, 11, 21, 49, 62... | British Library | |
| referencedIn | Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879 | Smithsonian Institution Archives | |
| referencedIn | BERRY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 454). Miscellaneous correspondence of Mary Berry arranged Chronologically, viz., (a) English, 1789-1851. f. 1;-(b) Foreign, 1791-1849. f. 299. Names of writers are given in the Index.includes:ff. 2-7 Richard Owen Cambridg..., 1789-1851 | British Library |
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