William Berry (5 November 1774 – 2 July 1851) was an English genealogist, known for various publications on family history and heraldry.
This was a carefully compiled family history, with beautifully engraved coats of arms, but did not receive much support, and after the issue of the fourth number, which terminated with an account of the dukes of Rutland, no further parts were printed.
His Genealogia Antiqua, or Mythological and Classical Tables, published in 1816, met with more success, and a second and improved edition appeared in 1840.
The first portion of county genealogies, Kent, was harshly reviewed in The Gentleman's Magazine, with exception being taken to Berry identifying himself on the title-page as "registering clerk in the College of Arms".
[1] Berry died at his son's residence, Spencer Place, Brixton, on 2 July 1851, aged 77, having survived his wife by two months.