Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet (1669 – 16 June 1701) was an

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soldier, politician and baronet.

Early life

He was the second, but oldest surviving son of Sir Randal Beresford, 2nd Baronet and the Hon. Catherine Annesley. Among his siblings were two sisters, Catherine Beresford (wife of Matthew Pennefather), and Jane Beresford (wife of Lt.-Gen. Frederick Hamilton). His paternal grandparents were Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet, and Anne Rowley (a daughter of John Rowley of Castle Rose). His maternal grandparents were Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia and, his second wife, the former Jane Stanhope (a daughter of Sir John Stanhope). In 1681, he succeeded his father as baronet.

Career

Commanding a Protestant regiment, Beresford was

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in May 1689. However he was acquitted after the

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. He entered the

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in 1692, sitting for

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until 1699.

Personal life

In February 1687, he married Hon. Nichola Sophia Hamilton, youngest daughter of

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, who spent most of his career in the Swedish army, and his second wife Susanna Balfour. Together, they were the parents of four daughters and a son, including: * Susanna Catherina Beresford (–1763), who married Hyacinth Nugent, 2nd Baron Nugent, son of

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, in 1703. * Arabella Maria Beresford (1690–1732) * Jane Beresford (–1764), who married prominent

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politician Gorges Lowther, in . *

Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (16 July 1694 – 4 April 1763), known as Sir Marcus Beresford, 4th Baronet, until 1720 and subsequently as The Viscount Tyrone until 1746, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Early life He was the only ...

(1694–1763), who married Lady Catherine Power, only daughter of James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, in 1717. * Araminta Beresford (1695–) His wife grew up with John Power, 2nd Earl of Tyrone. According to a family legend they both agreed in their childhood, that whoever should die at first, should try to return and report to the other about the afterlife. In October 1693, Nichola wore one morning a black ribbon and after a request by her husband, declared that her friend had died. Shortly thereafter a letter from the earl's steward arrived, confirming her assertion. She also predicted Beresford the birth of his son and when in 1713, a clergyman presented her documents, which changed her age to forty-seven, she announced her oncoming death. Nichola told a female friend, that on the night after the earl's death, his ghost had manifested and had given her information about her future life. Sir Tristram died in 1701 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Marcus, later raised to the

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by the title

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. After his death, Lady Beresford remarried, to Gen. Richard Gorges of Kilbrew,

, and had a further six children. Despite the romantic family legend, her death in 1713 was probably in childbirth with her youngest daughter Lucy, who married firstly William St Lawrence, 14th Baron Howth, by whom she had several children, and secondly Nicholas Weldon. Gen. Gorges remarried Dorothy Stopford ("Countess Doll"), daughter of James Stopford and Mary Forth, and widow of Edward Brabazon, fourth

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Descendants

Through his daughter Jane, he was a grandfather of Gorges Lowther, Irish MP for Ratoath and

, and Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet, whose descendants hold the title Baron Crofton. Through his only son Marcus, he was a grandfather of

George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford George de la Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, Order of St Patrick, KP, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (8 January 1735 – 3 December 1800), styled Earl of Tyrone from 1763 to 1789, was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish politi ...

, John Beresford, MP for Waterford, William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, Lady Catherine Beresford (wife of Thomas Christmas MP, and Theophilus Jones, MP), Lady Anne Beresford (wife of William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly), Lady Jane Beresford (wife of Edward Cary MP), Lady Araminta Beresford (wife of George Paul Monck, MP), Lady Frances Maria Beresford (wife of

Henry Flood Henry Flood (1732 – 2 December 1791) was an Irish people, Irish politician, statesman and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he becam ...

, MP), and Lady Eliza Beresford (wife of Col. Thomas Cobbe).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beresford, Tristram 1669 births 1701 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1692–1693 Irish MPs 1695–1699 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies Tristram