Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford PC (9 February 1777 – 31 May 1843) was a

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peer and politician. He served as

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between 1827 and 1830 and again between 1834 and 1835.

Background and education

Devereux was the son of George Devereux, 13th Viscount Hereford, and Marianna Devereux. His maternal grandfather was George Deveraux, of Tregoyd, a distant relation to the line of his father. He was educated at

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and

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Political career

Devereux succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1804 and took his seat on the Tory benches in the

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. In 1827 he was appointed

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under

Lord Goderich Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as The Viscount Goderich (pronounced ), the name by which he is best known to h ...

, a post he held until 1830, the last two years under the premiership of the

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. He held the same office (in 1834 renamed

) from 1834 to 1835 under

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. In 1830 he was admitted to the Privy Council.

Family

Lord Hereford married Frances Elizabeth Cornewall, daughter of

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and Catherine Cornewall, on 12 December 1805. They had six children: *Hon. Henry Cornewall Devereux (21 November 1807 – 14 September 1839), died unmarried * Robert Devereux, 15th Viscount Hereford (3 May 1809 – 18 August 1855), succeeded his father *

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Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux (3 November 1810 – 15 May 1868), married in 1856 Adelaide Ellinore Hughes, daughter of Hugh Robert Hughes of

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, niece of 1st Baron Dinorben *Hon. Humphrey Bohun Devereux (29 June 1812 – 19 May 1880), a Deputy Lieutenant of

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. He married Caroline Antrobus, daughter of Sir Edmund Antrobus, 2nd Baronet. The marriage was childless. *Hon. Frances Catherine Devereux (19 May 1814 – 12 January 1857), maid of honour to Queen Victoria; married Thomas Joseph Bradshaw, a barrister * Major-General Hon. George Talbot Devereux (12 January 1818 – 14 February 1898), married firstly in 1846, Flora Mary MacDonald, mother of

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from a previous marriage; married secondly in 1897 Katherine Jane Windham, daughter of Ashe Windham of Waghen Hall After a two-year illness, Lord Hereford died in May 1843, aged 67, at his home in

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, France. He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest surviving son, Robert. The Viscountess Hereford died in February 1864.

References

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