James Berry (Major-General)

James Berry (d. 1691[1]) 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 (1660) by Council of State in Scarborough Castle.

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Major General James Berry.
  1. ↑ David Plant, James Berry, Major-General, d.1691 the British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Berry, James". Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome. Cambridge University Press. p. 97.