William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (16 April 1743 – 6 September 1819) was an

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clergyman.

Early life

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 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 siblin ...

), and Catherine Poer, 1st Baroness de la Poer, the only daughter and heiress of

James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone (1667 – 19 August 1704) was an Irish Jacobite nobleman. Early life He was the youngest son of Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone and the former Lady Dorothy Annesley. Among his siblings were elder brother John Po ...

and 3rd

Viscount Decies Viscount Decies is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came on 31 January 1569 in favour Maurice Fitzgerald, Baron of Dromana. He had already been created Baron of Dromana on 27 January 1569, also in th ...

. Among his siblings were

George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford George de la Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, KP, PC (Ire) (8 January 1735 – 3 December 1800) was an Irish politician, known as George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone from 1763 to 1789. Beresford was the eldest son of Marcus B ...

, John Beresford, MP for Waterford, Catherine Beresford (wife of Thomas Christmas MP and Theophilus Jones MP), Frances Beresford (wife of

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), and Eliza Beresford (wife of Col.

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MP, son of Charles Cobbe,

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). He was educated at

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/ Thomas Ulick Sadleir p60: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

Career

He served as

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from 1780 to 1782,

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from 1782 to 1794, and as

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from 1794 until his death in 1819. He was admitted to the

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in 1794 and in 1812 he was raised to the

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as Baron Decies, of Decies in the County of Waterford.

Personal life

On 16 June 1763, Beresford married Elizabeth FitzGibbon (1732–1807), daughter of John FitzGibbon and wife Isabella Grove. Elizabeth's brother was

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, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. They had nine children, four sons and five daughters:

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, ''The Peerage of the British Empire'', third edition (London, 1834
page 135
/ref> * Brig-Gen. Marcus Beresford (1764–1803), who died unmarried. * Rev. John Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies (1773–1855), who married Charlotte Philadelphia Horsley, only daughter and heiress of Robert Horsley. * Hon. Rev. George Beresford (1776–1842), who married Susannah Gorges in 1798. * Hon. Rev. William Beresford (1780–1830), who married Lady Anna Bennet, daughter of the 4th Earl of Tankerville, in 1804. * Hon. Catherine Eleanor Beresford (d. 1837), who married Rev. William Armstrong in 1789. * Hon. Araminta Anne Beresford (d. 1816), who married the Very Rev. Arthur John Preston in 1794. * Hon. Harriet Beresford (d. 1834), who married Thomas Henry Bermingham Daly Sewell in 1796. * Hon. Frances Beresford (d. 1864), who married Col. Thomas Burrowes in 1797. * Hon. Louisa de la Poer Beresford (d. 1851), who married Thomas Hope in 1806. After his death in 1831, she married her first cousin

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in 1832. Lord Decies died in September 1819, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son

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;Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1061. his eldest son Marcus had died in 1803.

Descendants

Through his third son, he was a grandfather of British Army officer Marcus Beresford (1800–1876), who was also an MP for

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and

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. Through his youngest daughter Louisa, he was a grandfather of British MP and patron of the arts,

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(1808–1862), whose daughter Henrietta married

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, and British MP

Alexander Beresford Hope Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and Co ...

(1820–1887), who married Lady Mildred Gascoyne-Cecil (a daughter of

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