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Early and personal life
[edit]Berners-Lee was son of Major Cecil Burford Berners-Lee (1884–1931), of the Royal Field Artillery,[1] and Helen Lane Campbell Gray (1895–1968). His mother was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, daughter of John Sidney Gray, M.D.[2][3] His father shot himself in the head on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 February 1931, near the road to Martley at Great Witley in the Malvern Hills, with a six-chamber Webley revolver. His father had been found by a boy, Wallace Sanders, who was cycling by. His father died in Worcester Infirmary on the morning of Saturday 28 February 1931.[4]
His grandfather, Berners Burford Lee, married Gertrude Payne Tegner at St Augustine's church on Highbury New Park in north London on Wednesday 20 February 1884.[5] Berners Lee (grandfather) would live at 'Pool House' in Great Barr, and owned the Hall Green Works, and ironworks. Gertrude's uncle (and her adopted father) was Alfred Tegner, who lived at 'Krönborg' on Green Lanes in Stoke Newington, originally from Helsingør (Elsinore) in Denmark. Also at the service was Rev Thomas Lee, uncle of his grandfather Berners Lee, who was vicar of St John's, Islington.
His great-grandfather was Rev Charles Lee, the vicar of Bilston; the wife of Charles, Sarah Ann Mansfield, died on 13 March 1903, aged 68; they had married on 11 October 1853.[6] Rev Charles Lee, who attended St John's College, Cambridge, left the St Leonard's Church in January 1909, having been the vicar for 37 years, at a service conducted by the Bishop of Lichfield.[7] He died in January 1911, at 'Engadine', on Rowley Crescent, in Stratford-upon-Avon.[8]
Berners-Lee died on 1 February 2019 at the age of 97.[9][10]
- ^ The London Gazette, 6 October 1908, p. 7227
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press, 2 September 1920, p. 8
- ^ Reitwiesner, William Addams. "Ancestry of Tim Berners-Lee". www.wargs.com. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 2 March 1931, page 3
- ^ Darlaston Weekly Times Saturday 23 February 1884, page 5
- ^ Globe Wednesday 18 March 1903, page 9
- ^ Lichfield Mercury Friday 29 January 1909, page 3
- ^ Stratford upon Avon Herald Friday 27 January 1911, page 5
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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