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Pamela Vivien Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners (néeWilliams; 30 September 1929 – 23 January 2023) was a British hereditary peer who worked as a nurse in the National Health Service. She was a member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999.
Upon her mother's death in 1992, the ancient Berners barony by writ of summons fell into abeyance between Pamela and her younger sister, Rosemary, the wife of Kelvin Pollock FCA. As is customary in such uncontested cases, the House of Lords Committee of Privileges terminated the abeyance in favour of the elder daughter. Pamela succeeded her mother as Lady Berners in 1995. She joined the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where she sat until 1999, speaking about health and nursing matters.
Berners died from a stroke on 23 January 2023, at the age of 93. Her title passed to her elder son, Rupert William Tyrwhitt Kirkham, who on 12 February 1994 had married Lisa Lipsey, daughter of the decorated United States Air Forcepilot, Colonel Edward Lipsey.
Quarterly of ten: 1st Argent a Chevron reversed per pale Azure and Gules per chevron reversed counter-changed (Williams); 2nd Grandquarters (Tyrwhitt & Jones), quarterly of four first and fourth Gules three Peewits two and one Or, second and third Argent a Lion rampant Vert vulned in the mouth Proper; 3rd Gules three Peewits two and one Or (Tyrwhitt); 4th Argent three Boars' Heads erect and erased Sable (Booth); 5th Sable a Wolf salient Or in chief a Fleur-de-lys Argent between two Bezants (Wilson); 6th Argent a Bend Sable within a Bordure engrailed Sable (Knyvett); 7th Argent a Cross engrailed Gules between four Water Bougets Sable, over all a Label of three points Azure charged with three Lions rampant Or (Bourchier); 8th Gules Billety Or a Fess Argent (Lovayne); 9th Grandquarters, quarterly of four first and fourth France modern, second and third England all within a Bordure Argent (Thomas of Woodstock); 10th Quarterly Or and Vert (Berners).
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Dexter: A Falcon rising wings elevated Argent jessed and belled Or; Sinister: A Greyhound Proper gorged with a Collar Gules studded Or.
