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Conway Berners-Lee

Conway Maurice Berners-Lee (19 September 1921[2] – 1 February 2019) was an English mathematician and computer scientist who worked as a member of the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial stored program electronic computer.[3][4] He was born in Birmingham in 1921[5] and was the father of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Professor Mike Berners-Lee, researcher into climate change.

Conway Berners-Lee

Conway Maurice Berners-Lee

(1921-09-19)19 September 1921
Birmingham, England

1 February 2019(2019-02-01) (aged 97)[1]

(m. 1954; died 2017)

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Helen Lane Campbell Gray and Cecil Burford Berners-Lee

Early and personal life[edit]

Berners-Lee was son of Major Cecil Burford Berners-Lee (1884–1931), of the Royal Field Artillery,[6] and Helen Lane Campbell Gray (1895–1968). His mother was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, daughter of John Sidney Gray, M.D.[7][8]


Berners-Lee died on 1 February 2019 at the age of 97.[1][9]

The National Archives: The Ferranti Collection

Photograph with colleagues (under Ferranti and ICL)

Archived 9 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine from the British Library

An interview with Conway Berners-Lee