Sir Randal Beresford, 2nd Baronet (died 19 October 1681) was an Irish politician and baronet.

Early life

He was the son of

Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet (died 15 January 1673) was an 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 Ch ...

and his first wife Anne Rowley, daughter of John Rowley of Castleroe,

County Londonderry County Londonderry ( Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry ( ga, Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. B ...

, the first

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, and Mary Gage. His paternal grandparents were Tristram Beresford, who was from

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before settling in Ireland, and his wife Susannah Brooke.

Career

Beresford entered the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...

in 1661, sitting for

Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from ga, Cúil Rathain , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern I ...

until 1668. He served with Stephen Cuppage, who died and was replaced by William Jackson in 1666. Five years later, he succeeded his father as baronet.

Personal life

On 20 February 1662, he married Catherine Annesley, daughter of

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and his second wife Jane Stanhope, and had by her three sons and two daughters, including: *

Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet (1669 – 16 June 1701) was an Irish politician and baronet. Early life He was the second, but oldest surviving son of Sir Randal Beresford, 2nd Baronet and the former Hon. Catherine Annesley. Among his sibling ...

(1669–1701), who married Hon. Nichola Sophia Hamilton, youngest daughter of

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, in 1687. * Catherine Beresford, who married Matthew Pennefather, MP for Cashel, son of Matthew Pennefather, in 1697. * Jane Beresford (d. 1716), who married Lt.-Gen. Frederick Hamilton, son of Archibald Hamilton (himself a son of Robert Hamilton, 7th of Fairholm and of Milburne). Beresford died in 1681 and was buried at

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. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest surviving son Tristram.

Descendants

Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Elizabeth Pennefather (–1736/7), who married

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References

1681 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies People from County Londonderry Randal Year of birth unknown Irish MPs 1661–1666 {{Ireland-baronet-stub