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Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, GCB, GCVO, FRSGS (10 February 1846 – 6 September 1919), styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768–1854), British soldier, Governor of Jersey Lord William Beresford (1847–1900), Irish soldier and holder of the Victoria Cross Charles Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford (1846–1919), better known as Lord Charles Beresford, British naval commander and politician, great-nephew of the 1st Viscount
The Imperial Maritime League was a British pressure group founded on 27 January 1908 as a breakaway from the Navy League in order to campaign for a larger navy. [1] It focused on the media, linking editors with right-wing naval officers in order to challenge the Unionist government, the Admiralty, and the established Navy League as not ...
In the UK Parliament, William Vesey-FitzGerald, Lord Charles Beresford and Arthur Henderson were exceptional in achieving it on no fewer than four occasions each: Vesey-FitzGerald over a span of 18 years through three by-elections and one general election, Beresford over a span of 25 years after voluntarily resigning or retiring from the House ...
The Beresford family are an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family headed by the Marquess of Waterford. Junior branches of the family include the Barons Decies . Subcategories
Lord Greville, 3rd Baron Greville, Charles Beresford Fulke Greville had two sons. The second son was the Greville family secret and never recognised although known by the senior family members, was Peter Charles Algernon Ascroft Greville, he was born June 27, 1916, at his cousin Earl Harcourt's estate Ankerwycke Priory, where he remained until ...
[89] Lord Charles Beresford, later to become a severe critic of Fisher, gave up a plan to return to Britain and enter parliament, because he had "learnt more in the last week than in the last forty years." [90] Fisher implemented a program of banquets and balls for important dignitaries to improve diplomatic relations.