Biography of Henry de la Poer Beresford 3rd Marquess Waterford 1811-1859

Before 10th November 1807 [his father] Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford [aged 35] and [his mother] Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Waterford. She the daughter of [his grandfather] George Carpenter 2nd Earl Tyrconnel and [his grandmother] Sarah Hussey Delaval Countess Tyrconnel. He the son of George de la Poer Beresford 1st Marquess Waterford and Elizabeth Monck Marchioness Waterford [aged 65].

On 26th April 1811 Henry de la Poer Beresford 3rd Marquess Waterford was born to [his father] Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford [aged 38] and [his mother] Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford [aged 27].

On 8th July 1824 George de la Poer Beresford died of an inflammation of the boels folloing a short illness. The Waterford Mirror 14 July 1824: "With deep concern we have to state that on Thursday evening, the 8th instant, George Da Le Poer Berresord, Earl of Tyrone, eldest son of the Most Noble Henny, Marquis of Waterford, died, from inflammation of the bowels; after an illness of two days, at the house of his Father, in Mansfield street, Portland-place, London. He was fourteen years of age, we understand, last January, and was considered a youth of great promise. The title of Earl of Tyrone comes, of course, to his brother, Henry De Le Poer Beresford [aged 13], aged thirteen years, at present the heir apparent of the parent branch of the illustrious House of De Le Poer Beresford. Of his dispositions we hear most favourable accounts, The melancholy death of the Earl of Tynoxe made it unavoidable to put off the assembly which his ufflicied mother had projected for last Monday."

On 16th July 1826 [his father] Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford [aged 54] died. His son Henry [aged 15] succeeded 3rd Marquess Waterford.

In 1827 [his mother] Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford [aged 43] died.

In 1828 [his brother-in-law] Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot 3rd Earl Talbot 18th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 24] and [his sister] Sarah Elizabeth Beresford Countess Talbot Shrewsbury Waterford [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford and [his mother] Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford. He the son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot 2nd Earl Talbot [aged 50] and Frances Thomasina Lambart Countess Talbot. They were fifth cousins.

In June 1842 Henry de la Poer Beresford 3rd Marquess Waterford [aged 31] and Louisa Anne Stuart Marchioness Waterford [aged 24] were married byy his uncle Archbishop John Beresford [aged 68] at the Chapel Roal, Whitehall. She by marriage Marchioness Waterford. He the son of Henry de la Poer Beresford 2nd Marquess Waterford and Susan Hussey Carpenter Marchioness Waterford.

Report from an unknown July 1842: "With unmixed feelings of grief we announce the following truly melancholy accident:—On Saturday evening, at eight o'clock, while the Marquis of Waterford [aged 31] was driving his young and lovely bride [[his wife] Louisa Anne Stuart Marchioness Waterford [aged 24]] through the grounds of Curraghmore in a phæton, the horses, high-mettled and spirited, took head, and ran off a distance of nearly three miles, when the carringe was upset, both were thrown out, and dreadfal to relate, the Marchioness's skull was fractured and the Marquis is grievously, if not fatally injured. Of the life of the former, we regret to say, scarcely any hopes are entertained."

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

On 10th January 1849 Charles Chetwynd-Talbot 2nd Earl Talbot [aged 71] died at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. His son [his brother-in-law] Henry [aged 45] succeeded 3rd Earl Talbot, 3rd Viscount Ingestre, 5th Baron Talbot of Hensol in Glamorganshire. [his sister] Sarah Elizabeth Beresford Countess Talbot Shrewsbury Waterford [aged 41] by marriage Countess Talbot.

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

On 12th May 1891 [his former wife] Louisa Anne Stuart Marchioness Waterford [aged 73] died.