- GB-2014-WSA-03123
- Person
- 1764-1797
BERESFORD, MARCUS, eldest son of Right Hon. John Beresford PC (I) MP (I), First Commissioner of Irish Revenue Board, and his first wife Anne Constantia Ligondes, grand-dau. of Comte de Ligondes, Gen. in the French Army; b. 14 Feb 1764; adm. 13 Feb 1778; left 1780; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 13 Oct 1781, aged 17; BA 1784; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Oct 1779; called to Irish bar, King’s Inns, Dublin, 1786; first Counsel to Commissioners of Irish Revenue; joint Taster of Wines with his father; MP (I) Dungarvan from 1783; of Abbeville, co. Dublin; m. 25 Feb 1791 Lady Frances Arabella Leeson, youngest dau. of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (I); d. 16 Nov 1797.