Place of Birth: Birmingham, England
Date of Birth: 10 September 1921
Ethnicity: English, Irish, Scottish, remote French
Conway Berners-Lee is an English mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercial stored program electronic computer. He is the son of Cecil Burford Berners Lee and Helen Lane Campbell Gray. Conway is married to mathematician Mary Lee Woods, with whom he is the father of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. His mother was Canadian, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Conway’s paternal grandparents were Berners Burford Lee (the son of Charles Lee and Sarah Ann Mansfield) and Gertrude Agnes P. Tegner. Gertrude was born in India, however her ethnicity is unspecified.
Conway’s maternal grandparents were John S. Gray (the son of John Gray and Nancy Cummings) and Adelaide Lane (the daughter of Charles Lane and Lucinda Taplin). Conway’s great-grandfather John Gray was an Irish immigrant.
Sources: Genealogy of Conway Berners-Lee – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Conway Berners-Lee (through his son, Tim Berners-Lee) – http://www.wargs.com