Lord Berners

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners. Biography Early life and education Berners was born in Apley Hall, Stockton, Shropshire, in 1883, as Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, son of The Honorable Hugh Tyrwhitt (1856–1907) and his wife Julia Mary (1861–1931), daughter of William Orme Foster, Apley’s owner. His father, a Royal Navy officer, and aide- dewas rarely home. house near Wrexham. Berners was educated by the local curate. in spite of her own artistic inclinations . Berners later wrote, “My father was worldly, cynical, intolerant of any kind of inferiority, reserved and self-possessed. My mother was unworldly, naïve, impulsive and undecided, and in my father’s presence she was always at her worst”. Berners father became ill in 1906 , and died in 1907 Berners never got along with his step-father. Berners was first educated at home by governesses and then enrolled at the boarding school Cheam School His inheritance included Faringdon House, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, which he initially gave to his mother and her second husband;