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| 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 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
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 WORKS BY William Carr Beresford, viscount Beresford: “Sir R. Wilson's Letter to the Borough Electors” in Quarterly Review. Found 1.
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