Leicester Devereux, 7th Viscount Hereford (1674–1683) was a

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Peer. He was the eldest son of

Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford (1617 – 1 December 1676) was a British Peer. He was the second son of Walter Devereux, 5th Viscount Hereford (1578–1658). He married Elizabeth Withipoll, daughter and sole heiress of Sir William Wit ...

(1617–1676) and succeeded to the title as an infant. He died young and was succeeded by his younger brother

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. Edward died at the age of 25 in 1700 and the viscountcy passed to a Welsh cousin Price Devereux of Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire. Edward's sister Anne outlived her brothers, becoming the heiress: she married Leicester Martin.

References

* Sir Egerton Brydges, ''Collins's Peerage of England'' VI (1812) p. 19
Welsh Biography Online
1674 births 1683 deaths Leicester 7

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