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BERENS, RICHARD BENYON, elder son of Richard Beauvoir Berens (qv); b. 15 Mar 1834; adm. (G) 26 Apr 1848; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1852; BA 1857; MA 1865; of Kevington, Kent; DL JP Kent, High Sheriff 1893; m. 13 Jun 1860 Fanny Georgina, sister of George Stewart Park (qv); d. 28 Oct 1916.

BERENS, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Benyon Berens (qv); b. 28 Jan 1864; adm. (J) 21 Jun 1878; left Dec 1882; Christ Churtch, Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1882; BA 1887; MA 1890; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 11 May 1892; m. 3 Nov 1900 Elizabeth Evelyn, dau. of John Gibbons, Belton, Yorks.; d. 14 Jul 1909.

BERENS, WILLIAM JOSEPH, eldest son of Joseph Berens, Kevington, Kent, and Charlotte, dau. of Richard Benyon MP, Englefield House, Berks.; b.; adm. Mich. 1812; KS (aged 14) 1815; Ensign, 2nd Foot, 11 Jul 1822; Lieut., 26 Jan 1825; 6th Dragoon Guards, 14 Apr 1825; Capt., 26 Apr 1827; retd. 13 Mar 1837; m. 20 Jul 1837 Louisa Maria, second dau. of Col. Lancelot Rolleston MP, Watnall Hall, Notts.; d. 11 Jun 1854.

BERENS-DOWDESWELL, GEORGE, second son of Richard Benyon Berens (qv); b. 11 Jan 1866; adm. 22 Jan 1880; left May 1884; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1884; BA 1888; MA 1891; ordained deacon 1889 (London), priest [check]; Curate, St. Andrew’s, Bethnal Geen, London, 1889-1904, Vicar 1904-7; Curate, Harworth, Notts., 1908-11; Rector of Foots Cray, Kent, 1911-21; assumed additional surname of Dowdeswell in 1916 on succeeding to Tewkesbury estate of his cousin Edmund Richard Dowdeswell (qv); of Pull Court, Bushley, Tewkesbury, Gloucs.; m. 23 Sep 1918 Evelyn Mary, eldest dau. of William Hunter MD, Battery Place, Rothesay, Scotland; d. 28 Nov 1945.

Beresford, Alice; Dame of the boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard which stood in 1709 on part of the site of Vaughan’s House (approximately where nos. 2 and 3 Little Dean’s Yard were subsequently built) ; there by 28 Apr 1707 and still there at 5 Jun 1719 ; the household furniture of Mrs Beresford, Little Dean’s Yard, deceased, was sold by auction 21 Apr 1731 following.

BERESFORD, CHARLES GRIFFIS; b.; adm. 6 Jun 1787.

BERESFORD, CHRISTOPHER, only son of William Beresford, Leadenham, Lincs., and Jane, only child of John Tyringham, Nether Winchenden, Bucks.; bapt. St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln 17 Feb 1724/5; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1736 (Hawkins'); left 1740; d. 23 Mar 1740/1.

BERESFORD, GEORGE, son of Michael Beresford, Squerries, Westerham, Kent, and his first wife Rose, dau. of John Knevet; b.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1580; of Squerries, Westerham, Kent; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Randall Came, London, citizen and salter; d. 14 Dec 1619.

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.

BERESFORD, MARCUS, eldest son of Most Rev. William Beresford (afterwards 1st Baron Decies (I)), Archbishop of Tuam, and Elizabeth, second dau. of John Fitzgibbon, barrister, Mount Shannon, Co. Limerick, and sister of John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare PC (I), Lord Chancellor of Ireland; b. 1 Jun 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left 1779; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 7 Nov 1780, aged 16; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Apr 1785; Ensign, 9th Foot, 26 Oct 1786; Lieut., 30 Jun 1787; Capt., 27th Foot, 30 Nov 1789; Maj., 102nd Foot, 31 Oct 1793; Lieut. -Col., 135th Foot, 26 Nov 1794; half-pay 1798-1803; Brevet Col. 1 Jan 1801; local rank of Brig. -Gen. in Windward, Leeward and Caribbean Islands, 27 Jun 1802; MP (I) St. Canice 1790 - Jan 1794, Swords 1798; d. unm. at Barbados, West Indies, 1803.