Sidney Malcolm Berry was born on the 25 July 1881 to the Rev. Charles and Mary Agnes Berry nee Martin. Charles was a well known Congregational Minister who had, at one time, been offered the pulpit of the Plymouth Church, New York when the church was seeking a replacement for Rev. Henry Beecher - sister of Harriet Beecher-Stowe.  

Berry was ordained at the Oxted Congregational Church in Surrey in 1906, and in 1909 was called to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, and then in 1912 to Carr’s Lane Chapel, in the heart of Birmingham, a pastorate made famous by R. W. Dale. 

The Divine CommissionBY REV. SIDNEY M. BERRY, M.A.Preached in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Geneva, on the occasion of the Assembly of the League of Nations.