AstroTwinzFrancis Berry is a poet (United Kingdom).
Francis Berry (23 March 1915 – 10 October 2006) was a British academic, poet, critic and translator. He was born in Ipoh, Malaya, and educated at the University of London and the University of Exeter. After serving as an army soldier during World War II, and then as a schoolteacher in Malta, he held various appointments in English literature. He was professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield from 1947 to 1970, where he was a friend of William Empson. From 1970 until his retirement in 1980, he was professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He also wrote radio plays, and an edited translation of the Sauđarkrokur manuscripts entitled I Tell of Greenland (1977). His first collection of poetry, Gospel of Fire, was published in 1933; his Collected Poems, drawing on 11 books, appeared in 1994. His work has been praised by G. Wilson Knight and Philip Hobsbaum.
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| Born | 23 March 1915 |
| Profession | poet |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Employer | University of Sheffield, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Educated at | Dean Close School |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Gemini |
| Nakshatra | Mrigashira (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Pisces |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Cancer |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 31 of them (10%) have the Moon in Gemini, like Francis Berry, and 14 (4%) share the Mrigashira Nakshatra — the #6 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Francis Berry was born on 23 March 1915. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Francis Berry's Moon sign (Rashi) is Gemini and the Nakshatra is Mrigashira, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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