William Carr Beresford, viscount Beresford

(1768-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beresford, William Carr, Viscount, 1768-1854 NRA: Beresford, William Carr (1768-1854) Viscount Beresford, General DNB: Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford (1768-1854), army officer LBT ID: LdBeres1 VIAF ID: 10657808 LOC ID: n95015868	B/BAP: 1768-10-02 DIED: 1854-01-08
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The illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford, earl of Tyrone, and later first marquess of Waterford; he was commander of the Portuguese forces in the Peninsular War, raised to the peerage in 1823. Thomas Creevey complained of his “damned bad manners, or rather none at all.”
REFERENCES TO William Carr Beresford, viscount Beresford: Henry Grey Bennet to Thomas Creevey, 23 July 1813 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 11 October 1826 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 August 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 33 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXX. 1826-1827 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 16 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1813-14 Ch. V: 1827