Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland

Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland (17 September 1877 – 23 May 1928), was a Welsh financier and industrialist.

[1] Berry worked for his father's business before becoming a protégé of industrialist D. A. Thomas (later 1st Viscount Rhondda) in 1915.

He acquired John Lysaght Ltd with his brother William Berry, D. R. Llewellyn and Lady Rhondda and was chairman until it became part of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds in 1920.

He held the office of High Sheriff of Brecknockshire in 1924 and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Buckland, of Bwlch in the County of Brecon, on 16 July 1926.

A statue, by Goscombe John, was erected in his memory outside the library in Merthyr Tydfil.

Statue of Buckland by Goscombe John , outside the Carnegie Library in Merthyr Tydfil