Showing 21086 results

BERENS, RICHARD BEAUVOIR, brother of William Joseph Berens (qv); b. 16 Dec 1801; adm. 11 Oct 1816 (Packharness'); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Feb 1820; BA 1823; MA 1827; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1823, called to bar 24 Jun 1828; Home Circuit; of Kevington, St. Mary Cray, Kent; m. 10 Jun [Jan ?] 1833 Catherine, dau. of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); d. from effects of a fall from his horse 25 Feb 1859.

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.