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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.

BERESFORD, RICHARD, brother of George Beresford (qv); bapt. Sevenoaks, Kent 28 Feb 1568 (IGI); at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); of Ashburnham, Sussex; m. ---, dau. of Sir Edward Pelham, Ashburnham, Sussex; buried Westerham, Kent 4 Oct 1623.

Beresford, Timothy Edward de la Poer, son of George Henry William de la Poer Beresford of Bude, Cornwall, and Mary Isobel, d. of George Gibson Richardson of Gretna, Cumbria; b. 30 Nov. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left Dec, 1948; a professional photographer; m. 20 Sept. 1955 Mary Thorn Leburn, d. of John Waugh of Edinburgh; d. 7 Feb. 1974.

BERFEN, RALPH, son of John Berfen, Worcs.; b.; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050).

Berger, John Stephen, son of Major-General Ernest Archibald Berger, of Baling, by Margaret C., daughter of Thomas Brereton, of Nenagh, co. Tipperary; b. March 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (H); left July 1892; a mining engineer in S. America, and in Mines Dept., Federated Malay States, 1908-31; m. April 12, 1909, Violet Frances, daughter of Basil Grey, of Ceylon; d. Dec. 15, 1946.

BERKELEY, CHARLES, VISCOUNT DURSLEY, eldest son of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley KB, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States of Holland, Lord Lieut. Gloucestershire, and Lady Elizabeth Noel, dau. of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden; b. 17 Jun 1679; adm. 1694; Matthew Prior (qv), in a letter dated The Hague 8 Jun 1694, commends Berkeley, who has “wit enough to answer to the great genius of the school” to Knipe’s care (HMC Bath MSS, iii, 22-3); d. unm. May 1699.

BERKELEY, HON. GEORGE, brother of Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley (qv); b. 24 Feb 1691/2; adm.; QS (Capt., aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, scholar 15 May 1712, readm. nob. 10 Feb 1713; MA 1713; adm. Inner Temple 1 Aug 1707; Clerk of the Privy Council 1716-26; MP Dover 20 Dec 1720-34, Hedon 1734-41, and from 4 Mar 1742; Master, Hospital of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, London, from 28 May 1738; m. 1 Jul 1735 [or 26 Jun ?] Henrietta, widow of Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk, and sister of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); d. 29 Oct 1746. DNB.