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BERNIER, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jul 1743; left 1746. [Evidently James Bernier, son of Henry Bernier, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. George in the East, London 24 Dec 1734 (IGI); father probably Henry Bernier, Clerk, Annuity Office, Exchequer (Chamberlayne 1748)]

BERRY, ---; b.; at school 1656-7 (Busby’s Account Book : a boarder).

Berry, John; eldest son of Rev.John Berry, Nonconformist minister, formerly Rector of East Down, Devon ; b. Barnstaple, Devon c.1662 ; ed Barnstaple School ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, matr.1680 ; BA 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1685, priest 28 Feb 1685/6 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Knebworth, Herts. ; Vicar of Watton, Norfolk, from 26 Aug 1691 (also Rector of Griston, Norfolk 9 Nov 1694- Sep 1699, Threxton, Norfolk 1698) ; he and his wife are said to have “boarded young gentlemen belonging to the school [Westminster School]” (A.Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley family, 1823, 458), and it is suggested that this is how his daughter and her future husband became acquainted ; m. 21 Sep 1691 Ursula, dau. of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Rector of Knebworth, Herts., and half-sister of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Minor Canon of Westminster ; buried 28 Sep 1730. Father-in-law of Samuel Wesley (qv), Usher. [But note that the statement by Adam Clarke in his book of 1823 seems to be the only evidence that Berry and his wife conducted a boarding house for Westminster pupils, and a complication is that they would been doing this while Berry was also a Church of England clergyman in Norfolk]

BERRY, THOMAS, son of Henry Berry, Golden Square, London, and Sedgefield, co. Durham, brewer, and Harriet Kearsley (IGI); bapt. Sedgefield, co. Durham 6 Jan 1797 (IGI); adm. 15 Jan 1812; left 1813; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 30 Dec 1813, res 23 Jan 1817; served at battle of Waterloo; Cadet, EICS Madras 1821; Lieut., 17th Native Infantry, 10 Sep 1823; 34th Native Infantry, 1 May 1824 - 2 Dec 1825, struck off in England.

Berry, Zephaniah Donald, son of Edmonds Augustine Berry, of Westminster, by Violet Evelyn, daughter of William Charles Brown, of Herne Hill, Surrey; b. May 7, 1902; adm. April 29, 1915 (H); migrated up Grant's; left July 1919; an engineer; m. Oct. 20, 1950, Diane Rose, sister of Peter James Stuart Bevan (q.v.).

Berryman, Frederic Donald, brother of Montague Levander Berryman (q.v.); b. Oct. 15, 1902; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (R); left Dec. 1920; admitted a solicitor Oct. 1926.

Berryman, Frederick Donald, brother of Montague Levander Berryman (qv); b. 15 Oct. 1902; adm. Sept. 1915 (R); left Dec. 1920; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1926; practised in City of London; retd 1979; d. 6 June 1990.

Berryman, Montague Levander, son of Frederic John Berryman, of Lewisham, Kent, solicitor, by Mabel, daughter of James Wright, of Barnstaple, Devon; b. July 21, 1899; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (R); left Dec. 1917; served in the 3rd Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. during Great War I; 2nd Lieut. Aug. 28, 1918; called to the bar at the Middle Temple Jan. 26, 1921; S.E. Circuit; editor of the eighth edition of Elliott's Workmen's Compensation Acts (1925); K.C. 1945; Recorder of Gravesend 1945; of Dover 1947; Deputy Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Herts 1959; m. Aug. 22, 1923, Marjorie, daughter of Addy Nunn Myhill, of Saffron Walden, Essex; d. 1974.

Bersi-Mangakis, Demosthenes, known at school as Demosthenes Mangakis, son of Michael Mangakis of London and Sophie, d. of Paul Bersi of Athens; b. 22 Feb. 1914; adm. Jan. 1927 (H), KS (non-res.) Sept. 1927; left Dec. 1931; LSE, BSc 1935; FO Political and Intelligence Dept 1943-6; Chatham House 1946-9; export dir. Goya Ltd 1949-55, Colman Prentis & Varley Ltd 1955-9; export man. Yardley Ltd 1959-72; marketing consultant E. Europe 1972-5; changed name by deed poll Jan. 1973; retd 1975 and lived in Greece; m. 23 Dec. 1963 Cecile Vera Cruickshank; d. 16 Dec. 1997