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 ii8 BERESFORD of Jersey, 1820-54; P.C. 6 Feb. 1821. On 28 Mar. 1823 he was cr. VISCOUNT BERESFORD OF BERESFORD, co. Stafford. Lieut. Gen. of the Ordnance, 1823-24; General in the Army, 1825; Master Gen. of the Ordnance, 1828-30, and as such, Gov. of the Mihtary Academy of Woolwich, i^c. He ?«. (by spec, lie), 29 Nov. 1832, at her father's house in Curzon Str., Mayfair, Midx., Louisa, widow of Thomas HoPE,(*) of Deepdene, Surrey, and da. of William (Beresford), ist Lord Decies [I.], Archbishop of Tuam, by Elizabeth, sister of John, ist Earl OF Clare [I.], and da. of John Fitz-Gibbon, of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick. She d. 21 July 1 851, at Bedgebury Park, Kent, and was bur. at Kilndown, in the parish of Goudhurst. Will pr. Sep. 1851. He d. s.p. legit., at Bedgebury Park afsd., 8, and was bur. 17 Jan. 1854, aged 85, at the new church of Kilndown (which was erected in 1840 principally at his own cost), when all his titles became extinct. Will dat. 21 Jan. iSfijC) pr. Feb. 1854. BERESFORD co. StafFord See " Beresford of Beresford, co. Stafford," Viscountcy (Beresford), cr. 1823, extinct 1854, BERGAVENNY see ABERGAVENNY BERKELEY(0 Observations. — On account of the notoriety of this dignity and to assist Wellington was cr. a Duke, his five most conspicuous Lieutenants, Cotton, Hill, Graham, Hope, and Beresford, were cr. Barons (Combermere, Hill, Lynedoch, Niddry, and Beresford), and the sum of ;^2,ooo a year each for themselves and their two im- mediate successors in the respective Baronies, was granted by Pari, in the same year. (^) Author of the well-known work Anastasiiu. (^) By it he devised his English estates, viz. Bedgebury Park, Kent, and Beres- ford Hall, CO. StafFord (which, as having been the cradle of the House of Beresford, he had purchased), to (the yst. of the three sons of his wife) Alexander James Beresford- Hope, afterwards the Rt. Hon. A. J. B. Beresford-Hope. His Irish estates he left to his nephew, Denis William Pack, afterwards D. W. Pack-Beresford, of Fenagh Lodge, CO. Carlow, 2nd s. of Major Gen. Sir Denis Pack, K.C.B., by Elizabeth Louisa, da. (born in wedlock) of testator's father, George de la Poer (Beresford), 1st Marquess of Waterford [I.] abovenamed. (') In 1885 the Livei of the Berkeleys, Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley from 1066 to 161 8, with a description of the Hundred of Berkeley and its inhab- itants, by John Smyth of Nibley, were ably edited by Sir John Maclean, F.S.A., isfc. (for the Bristol and Glouc. Archaeological Society) in 3 vols. The original MS. is in 3 vols, folio, containing 933 closely written pages, and is preserved at Berkeley Castle, and it is well said in the transactions of the Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. (vol. v, 1880-81) that "it is scarcely possible to over-estimate the archaeological value and importance of such a compilation as this."