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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.
The family seat is Curraghmore, near Portlaw, County Waterford, in the Republic of Ireland. [5] The Beresford family, owned land in various parts of Ireland, including almost 40,000 acres in county Waterford, 26,000 in county Wicklow and over 4,500 acres in county Leitrim. The family remain amongst the largest land owners in all Ireland.
Beresford was born in Philipstown (Daingean) County Offaly and grew up in Curraghmore, Ireland, the second of five brothers.His older brother John joined the Life Guards, succeeding to the family estate and titles in 1866 on the death of their father.
Decies was the third son, out of seven sons and eight daughters, of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (himself the only son of Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet), and Catherine Poer, 1st Baroness de la Poer, the only daughter and heiress of James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone and 3rd Viscount Decies.
The Beresford, later Beresford-Peirse Baronetcy, of Bagnall in the County of Waterford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 May 1814 for John Beresford . He was an admiral in the Royal Navy and also represented Coleraine , Berwick-on-Tweed , Northallerton and Chatham in the House of Commons .
John Hubert de la Poer Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford (14 July 1933 – 11 February 2015) was an Irish peer. He succeeded to the marquessate in 1934. He succeeded to the marquessate in 1934. He was educated at Eton , and later served as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards ' Supplementary Reserve.
As Maria's father, Sir John Willoughby, 4th Baronet, had died in 1866, her brother, Maj. Sir John Willoughby, Bt of Jameson Raid fame, gave her away and William's groomsman was his brother, Capt. the Hon. John Graham Beresford, aide-de-camp to the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. [5] [6] She was known for her "remarkable collection of cats." [2]
Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet (died 15 January 1673) [1] was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. He was the ancestor of the Marquesses of Waterford , the Barons Decies and the Beresford baronets , of William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford and Charles Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford .