William Beresford may refer to: *

William Beresford (politician) William Beresford (17 April 1797 – 6 October 1883) was a British Conservative politician. Background He was the only son of Marcus Beresford and his wife Frances Arabella, daughter of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Beresford was educate ...

(1797–1883), British politician *

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

(1743–1819), Anglican Archbishop of Tuam, great-uncle of the above *

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought ...

(1768–1854), British Army general, nephew of the above *

William Horsley-Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies William Robert John Horsley Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies (June 1811 – 3 July 1893) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. Early life Beresford was born on 12 January 1865. He was the only son born to John Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies, the Rector of ...

(1811–1893), Anglo-Irish peer *

Lord William Beresford Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford (20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that ...

(1847–1900), Irish Victoria Cross recipient, great-nephew of Viscount Beresford * William Beresford, 4th Baron Decies (1865–1910), Anglo-Irish peer

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