Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford (9 June 1694 – 29 July 1748) was a

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Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1719 to 1740 when he succeeded to a

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Viscount Hereford Viscount Hereford is the oldest extant viscountcy in the Peerage of England, making the holder the Premier Viscount of England. The title was created in 1550 for Walter Devereux, 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. History The Devereux () fam ...

. Devereux was the son of

Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford (1664 – 3 October 1740) of Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire and Ombersley Court, Worcestershire was a British Peer. He was the son of Price Devereux (who died before his own father in 1666) and grandson ...

and his wife Mary Sandys, daughter of Samuel Sandys of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire. He entered

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in 1711. In 1719 Devereux was

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, having inherited the estate of the Morgans of Pencoyd near

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. The same year he was returned unopposed at a by-election as Member of Parliament for

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. He was returned again for Montgomeryshire at the general elections of

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and

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. In 1727 he was also returned as MP for Orford but preferred to represent Montgomeryshire where he was returned again at the 1734 general election. In 1740 he surrendered his seat when, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the peerage as

, premier viscount of England, inheriting

Vaynor Park Vaynor Park is a country house in a landscaped park, standing on high ground to the south-west of Berriew village, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. The origins of the house date from the mid-15th century, but the house was ex ...

in Montgomery. He married as his first wife the daughter and heiress of Leicester Martin and as his second wife (1740) a daughter of William Price of Rhiwlas,

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. On Devereux' death on 29 July 1748, the title passed to Edward Devereux, a distant cousin in

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and the estate at Vaynor Park was sold.

References

Welsh Biography Online
1694 births 1748 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Price 10 Devereux, Price Devereux, Price Devereux, Price Devereux, Price Devereux, Price Devereux, Price High sheriffs of Brecknockshire

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