Biography of Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford 1846-1919

On 20th February 1843 [his father] John Beresford 4th Marquess Waterford [aged 28] and [his mother] Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford [aged 23] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford and [his grandmother] Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford.

On 10th February 1846 Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford was born to John Beresford 4th Marquess Waterford [aged 31] and Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford [aged 26].

On 29th March 1859 [his uncle] Henry de la Poer Beresford 3rd Marquess Waterford [aged 47] died in a hunting accident. His brother [his father] John [aged 44] succeeded 4th Marquess Waterford. [his mother] Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford [aged 39] by marriage Marchioness Waterford.

On 6th November 1866 [his father] John Beresford 4th Marquess Waterford [aged 52] died. His son [his brother] John [aged 22] succeeded 5th Marquess Waterford.

On 21st July 1874 [his brother] John Beresford 5th Marquess Waterford [aged 30] and [his sister-in-law] Blanche Somerset Marchioness of Waterford [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Waterford. She the daughter of Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset 8th Duke Beaufort [aged 50] and Georgiana Charlotte Curzon Howe Duchess Beaufort [aged 49]. He the son of [his father] John Beresford 4th Marquess Waterford and [his mother] Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford [aged 54]. They were half third cousin once removed.

On 25th October 1884 Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville Countess Feversham was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 31] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 22]. Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 38]. She married (1) before 2nd November 1906 her fifth cousin once removed Charles William Reginald Duncombe 2nd Earl Feversham and had issue (2) 1st November 1917 her sixth cousin William Gervase Beckett 1st Baronet and had issue.

On 22nd November 1885 Charles Algernon Cromartie Greville was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 32] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 23]. Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 39]. He died aged one in 1887.

On 23rd October 1895 [his brother] John Beresford 5th Marquess Waterford [aged 51] committed suicide. His son [his nephew] Henry [aged 20] succeeded 6th Marquess Waterford.

On 22nd February 1897 [his former sister-in-law] Blanche Somerset Marchioness of Waterford [aged 40] died. The Graphic (London, England), Saturday, February 27, 1897: Much regret will be felt at the death of Blanche, Marchioness of Waterford. She was the only daughter of the eighth and present Duke of Beaufort, and was born in 1856. In 1874 she married the [his brother] fifth Marquis of Waterford, who died in sad circumstances in October, 1895. Lady Waterford had been suffering for some years from a severe illness from which there was no hope of recovery, and her husband's death gave her a severe shock. Last year, at the coming of age of the present Marquis, she had regained some of her strength, but the improvement was not maintained, and she gradually grew worse until she died on Monday morning at Curraghmore, County Waterford. Lady Waterford leaves one son (the present Marquis) and two daughters, the Ladies [his niece] Susan [aged 19] and Clodagh [aged 18] de la Poer Beresford.

In 1905 [his mother] Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford [aged 85] died.

20th June 1911. Langfier. Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball: Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine Duchess of Sutherland [aged 43], Sir Louis du Pan Mallet, 1864-1936, Cicely Margaret Horner seated, and Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 65].

Cicely Margaret Horner: Before 1911 George Lambton and she were married. He the son of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham.

The London Gazette 29454. Whitehall, January 28, 1916.

The King has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to confer the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom upon the undermentioned gentlemen, and the heirs male of their respective bodies lawfully begotten: —

Admiral Sir Charles William de la Poer Beresford [aged 69], G.C.B., G.C.V.O. (commonly called Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford), and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Beresford of Metemmeh, and of Curraghmore in the County of Waterford.

Sir Alexander Henderson, of Buscot Park, in the County of Berks, Baronet, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Faringdon, of Buscot Park in the County of Berks.

Sir Thomas George Shaughnessy, K.C.V.O., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Shaughnessy, of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada, and of Ashford in the County of Limerick.

William Waldorf Astor [aged 67], of Hever Castle, in the County of Kent, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent.

On 6th September 1919 Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 73] died. Baron Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore in Waterford County extinct.