Talk:Anthony Berry

To do / details

This article was created by Oliver Pereira.

Things to do:-

• Get Sir Anthony's precise date of birth.
• Check dates of children's births and date of Sir Anthony's divorce. One source says that his daughter Joanna was "six years old" when her parents divorced, which is not consistent with the dates given here.
• Get details of Sir Anthony's second marriage and subsequent children.
• Get further details of his career.
• Check spelling of Joanna's married name. One seemingly well-researched page gives her surname as "Tufnell" (with one "f"), but this could be explained by the author perhaps assuming that Joanna, being from an upper-class family, had married into the Tufnells of Langleys, a family of the landed gentry.
• Consider giving Jo Tuffnell and Patrick Magee their own pages.

Dates as given match those given in Burke's Peerage, which also spells Tufnell with one "f", FWIW. -- Someone else

Thanks! :o) So presumably the BBC has made a mistake, consistently spelling her name as "Tuffnell" - unless the family has decided to change the spelling since Burke's Peerage came out...! By the way, I don't suppose you know if Jo's husband is a member of the Tufnell family of Langleys, do you? -- Oliver Pereira

Sorry, no clue on Peter Tufnell's origins<G>! -- Someone else

I checked the marriage indexes in the Family Records Centre in London today - don't worry, I was going there anyway! The index entry had Mr. Peter A. TUFFNELL marrying Ms. Joanna C. BERRY. So Burke's looks like the erroneous source! -- Oliver Pereira

Good to know <G>. Not their first, of course :( -- Someone else

Contact address

I'm going to remove the "For further info" bit... Wikipedia is not an address book. Mintguy 23:25 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Well... All right, I expect you're right to remove it from the article. I'm going to put the address here, though. Just in case anyone wants it... :) -- Oliver P. 23:46 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

For further information, write to:-

Jo Berry

25 Pensyflog

Porthmadog

Gwynedd

N. Wales

LL49 9LB

<jofreespirit@yahoo.com>

Weasel words

Authenticity check: A search reveals that the phrase "regarded by many" appears in the text. Is the phrase a symptom of a dubious statement? Could a source be quoted instead? Perhaps the "many" could be identified? Might text be edited to more genuinely reflect specific facts?

Wetman

Missing information

Further to the comments above now made several years ago, I've been attempting to expand this article over the last few days. I added a section on his career (though that just briefly covers his political career) and some details about the 25th anniversary ceremony where Lady Sarah Berry and their daughter Sasha unveiled a plaque in Sir Anthony's memory. There's still a lot of missing information though. Some things which need to be included are;

• Education - schooling, university, qualifications, etc.
• Any military service - who he served with and any campaigns he was involved in (he would have been the right age to have served in the latter part of World War 2).
• Early career - career before entering politics.
• More on his political career. Did he serve in Heath's government for example?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks TheRetroGuy (talk) 14:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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A confusing sentence

In the first paragraph under his death, it says "He was survived by his wife, Lady Berry..." unless there is a usage of the word survived that I don't know of, this is grammatically incorrect, and the sentence doesn't make much sense so a revision of this sentence would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.83.69.41 (talk) 18:37, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Status in Government at the time of his death

It says here, with reference to a cited source that "At the time of his death he was Deputy Chief Whip in Thatcher's government". While I have often seen this claim made, it does not seem to be correct. He had indeed held this office in the past, but had ceased to hold it in the wake of the Government reshuffle following the 1983 United Kingdom general election. The position was at the time, as it often is, identical with the office of Treasurer of the Household which as noted here Berry ceased to hold in 1983 when he was replaced by John Cope, Baron Cope of Berkeley. The article covering the Government after the 1983 election - Second Thatcher ministry - does not list Berry as holding any office in the Government. The Glasgow Herald report of the Brighton bombing on 13 October 1984 specifically states Berry was "former Deputy Chief Whip". Thus I think it is clear that this is an unintentional, if oft repeated error, and while I appreciate it is source, I think it should nonetheless be changed for accuracy. Dunarc (talk) 21:00, 10 May 2023 (UTC)