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Mowbray Stenhouse Berkeley
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Investment representative.
Born in Antigua, British West Indies on 7 April 1881, son of Humphry Berkeley and Bertha Moir, he was educated at Jersey, Channel Islands, and England. He came to Canada in 1900 and to Winnipeg in 1906 where he represented British capital in Canada.
In 1915, he was an agent in Manitoba for the Russian government and arranged for a number of men from Manitoba to go to Russia to build a munitions railway. On 6 June 1917, he enlisted with the 90th Regiment Reinforcement to the 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry but was discharged at Camp St. Charles in Winnipeg on 15 July 1917 for appointment in the British Army. He went to England and returned to New York in October 1917. By September 1918, he had a US military registration card ans was residing at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York City. In 1919, he starred in the silent film Fires of Faith.
In 1908, he married Aimee McMullen Burch Pearson (1880-1975) of Winnipeg. They had four children: Illorin Aimee Berkeley Wacek (1908-2008), Betty Dolores Berkeley Simpson (1909-1989), Hollywood set decorator Mowbray-Fitz Harding “Bunny” Berkeley (1911-2004), Randall Edward “Ted” Berkeley (1912-1997) before divorcing in 1936. That same year, he married Ruth Thomas Fitzpatrick at Reno, Nevada. By 1940, he had married Sylvia Reona Williams.
While living in Winnipeg, he was a member of the Manitoba Club, Winnipeg Golf Club, Winnipeg Hunt Club, Western Canada Military Institute, Canadian Association of Public Schools of Great Britain, Conservative party, and Anglican church. His recreations included cricket, tennis, golf, and shooting.
He died at Hollywood, California in December 1948.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
“Workmen to aid Russian railway leave Saturday,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 8 October 1915, page 5.
Mowbray Stenhouse Berkeley, First World War Personnel Records, Library and Archives Canada.
“Seeks divorce,” Monrovia News-Post, 24 June 1936, page 1.
“Broker weds in Reno,” The Sacramento Bee, 1 July 1936, page 4.
“Broker honeymooning,” The Pasadena Post, 2 July 1936, page 6.
Obituary, Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, 29 December 1948, page 7.
Aimee J. Birch Berkeley, FindAGrave.
Mowbray Berkeley, IMDB.
Obituary [Mowbray Berkeley], Variety, 24 September 2004.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 February 2024
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