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Beresford, Viscount (UK, 1823 - 1854)

Creation: let.pat. 28 Mar 1823

Extinct: 8 Jan 1854

Family name: Beresford

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Arms:

Argent semée of Crosses Crosslet Fitchée three Fleurs de lis Sable within a Bordure wavy Pean

Crest:

Issuant from a Mural Crown Or a Dragon's Head proper per fess wavy Azure and Gules the lower part of the neck transfixed by a Broken Spear in the mouth the remaining part of the spear point upwards Gold

Supporters:

On either side an Angel proper winged and crined Or vested Argent holding in the exterior hand a Sword of the last Pomels and Hilts Gold and charged on the breast with three Fleurs de lis Azure

Motto:

 Nil Nisi Cruce

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William Carr [Beresford], 1st Baron Beresford later 1st Viscount Beresford, GCB GCH PC

illegit. son of George de la Poer [Beresford], 1st Marquess of Waterford

born

2 Oct 1768

mar.

29 Nov 1832 his first cousin Hon Louisa Hope (widow of Thomas Hope, of Deepdene, co. Surrey;  d. 21 Jul 1851;  bur. at Kilndown, co. Kent), 5th dau. of William [Beresford], 1st Baron Decies, Archbishop of Tuam, by his wife Elizabeth FitzGibbon, sister of John [FitzGibbon], 1st Earl of Clare, and 2nd dau. of John FitzGibbon, of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick

died

s.p.legit. 8 Jan 1754 (bur. at Kilndown, co. Kent)

created

19 Oct 1811 Count of Trancoso [Kingdom of Portugal]

17 Dec 1812 Marquis of Campo Mayor [Kingdom of Portugal]

17 May 1814 Baron Beresford, of Albuera and Dungarvan in the County of Waterford

28 Mar 1823 Viscount Beresford, of Beresford in the County of Stafford

note

Ensign, 6th Regiment of Foot 1785;  Capt, 69th Foot 1791;  at the taking of Toulon 1793;  Major 1794 ; at the taking of Bastia 1795;  served at Lt Col under Baird in Egypt 1799 and at the re-conquest of the Cape of Good Hope;  Col 1800;  taken prisoner at Buenos Aires 1806 but escaped the next year;  in command at the taking of Madeira 1807;  Governor of Madeira for the King of Portugal 1807-08;  Col of the 88th Foot 1807-19;  Maj General 1808, when he served under Moore in Spain and was present at the Battle of Corunna 1809;  in command at the Battle of Sierra Busaco 1810, for which he was made a Knight of the Bath;  Member of Parliament (Tory) for co. Waterford 1811-14;  Governor of Cork 1811-20;  gained a victory against Marshal Soult at the Battle of Albuera 1811, for which he received the thanks of Parliament;  present at the Battles of Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthez;  Lieut General 1812;  GCB 1815;  GCH 1818;  Col of the 69th Foot 1819-23;  Governor of Jersey 1820-54;  Privy Councillor 1821;  Col of the 16th Foot 1823-54;  Lieut General of the Ordnance 1823-24;  General 1825;  Master General of the Ordnance and Governor of the Military Academy at Woolwich 1828-30;  Col in Chief 60th Rifles 1852-54

On the death of the 1st Viscount Beresford both the Barony and the Viscountcy of Beresford became extinct. In his will he devised his English estates, Bedgebury Park, co. Kent, and Beresford Hall, co. Stafford, to the youngest of the three sons of his wife, Rt Hon Alexander James Beresford Hope later Beresford-Hope. He left his Irish estates to his nephew, Denis William Pack later Pack-Beresford, of Fenagh Lodge, co. Carlow, 2nd son of Maj Gen Sir Denis Pack KCB by his wife Lady Elizabeth Louisa Beresford.

 First written 7 Mar 2012

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