Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Viscount Camrose | |
Office: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property |
Term Start: | 7 March 2023 |
Term End: | 5 July 2024 |
Primeminister: | Rishi Sunak |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 6 April 2022 |
Term End1: | present |
1Blankname1: | By-election |
1Namedata1: | 6 April 2022 |
Predecessor1: | The 3rd Baron Rotherwick |
Birth Name: | Jonathan William Berry |
Birth Date: | 26 February 1970 |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose Marina Beatrice Sulzberger |
Predecessor: | Office established |
Jonathan William Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose (born 26 February 1970) is a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician.
Camrose was born in 1970, the only son of Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose and his wife Marina Beatrice Sulzberger. He is a great-grandson of the newspaper publisher William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and of the politician F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead.
He attended Durham University, completing a Bachelor of Arts in French and German in 1993, and a Masters of Business Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2008 to 2009, he was head of change management at BP and in 2010 he founded Camrose Communications Ltd.[1]
Camrose succeeded to the viscountcy upon the death of his father in 2016.
See also: Sunak ministry. In a March 2022 by-election, Camrose was elected to replace Lord Rotherwick in the House of Lords following Rotherwick's retirement in February 2022.[2] He made his maiden speech on 27 June 2022.[3]
In March 2023, Rishi Sunak appointed Camrose a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology where he is Minister for AI and Intellectual Property.[4] Viscount Camrose became the second hereditary peer to be appointed to a ministerial role by Sunak.[5]
Camrose married Aurélie Molin in 1996. They have four children:[6]