William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general, Marshal and commander-in-chief of the Portuguese Army, Master-General of the Ordnance, Governor of Jersey, 1st Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, 1st Viscount Beresford of Beresford.
Dates: 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854
Biography
A distinguished British soldier who served with Wellington in the Peninsular War, Beresford acquired Bedgebury Park in 1836 and rebuilt and enlarged the estate. He married his widowed first cousin Louisa Hope in 1832. The marriage was childless, and his English estates passed at his death to his stepson Alexander James Beresford Hope, who assumed the additional surname Beresford.
Notes / Sources
National Library of Ireland catalogue, Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. F — https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000000000
Wikimedia Commons file record and reproduced blazon — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arms_of_William_Beresford,_1st_Viscount_Beresford.svg
London Gazette, peerage creation notices — https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/16894/page/936
Biographical account with arms and grant summary — https://wiki.sizzltek.com/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2025-08/William_Beresford,_1st_Viscount_Beresford
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Beresford of Albuera and Beresford
Father: George de la Poer Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
Spouse(s): Hon. Louisa Beresford, widow of Thomas Hope
Armorial Registry
Beresford of Albuera and Beresford — William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, grant and estate-transmitting stepfather
Branch: Beresford of Beresford and Albuera
Issued / recorded: 1 July 1811
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