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

On 20th February 1843 [his father] John Beresford 4th Marquess Waterford (age 28) and [his step-mother] Christiana Leslie Marchioness of Waterford (age 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 (age 31).

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

On 25th October 1884 Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville Countess Feversham was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke (age 31) and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 22). Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford (age 38).

On 22nd November 1885 Charles Algernon Cromartie Greville was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke (age 32) and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 23). Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford (age 39).

20th June 1911. Langfier. Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball: Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine Duchess of Sutherland (age 43), Sir Louis du Pan Mallet, 1864-1936, Cicely Margaret Horner seated, and Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford (age 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 (age 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 (age 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 (age 73) died. Baron Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore in Waterford County extinct.