James Berry

Deceased Person

– 1691

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Who was James Berry?

James Berry was a Parliamentary Major-General who fought in the English Civil War.

Berry was a major-general; clerk in ironworks, Shropshire, ca. 1642; took service under Cromwell; captain-lieutenant at battle of Gainsborough, 1643; president of council of adjutators, 1647; employed in suppressing attempted rising in Nottinghamshire, 1665; major-general of Hereford, Shropshire, and Wales, 1655; member of Cromwell's House of Lords; member of Council of State and of committee who nominated to offices, 1659; imprisoned by Council of State in Scarborough Castle.

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1691

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on July 23, 2013

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