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Beresford, Marcus, 1764-1803
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1764-1803
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.