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John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford

John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford

Irish peer and Church of Ireland minister

For other people named John Beresford, see John Beresford (disambiguation).

Reverend John de la Poer Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford (27 April 1814 – 6 November 1866) was an Irish peer and Church of Ireland minister.

Beresford was the third son of the Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford and his wife, Susanna.[1] He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He later entered the ministry and was the incumbent of Mullaghbrack, County Armagh and a Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, serving under his uncle, Lord John Beresford.

Christiana Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford

On 20 February 1843, he married Christiana Leslie, daughter of Colonel Charles Powell Leslie, of Castle Leslie, Glaslough, County Monaghan.[3] They had five sons:

Death

Beresford inherited the marquessate from his childless brother in 1859. On his own death in 1866, the title passed to his eldest son, John.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses has him the third son.
  2. [2]
    "Beresford, Lord John De La Poer (BRST832JD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. [3]
    Debrett's Illustrated Peerage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Under the Immediate Revision and Correction of the Peers. Bosworth. 1865. p. 344.
  4. [4]
    Burke's Peerage (repr. 2003). p. 4091.
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