George Beresford (bishop)

Irish Anglican bishop (1765–1841)

Not to be confused with his first cousin George Beresford (priest), Provost of Tuam.

The Rt. Rev. George de la Poer Beresford (19 July 1765 – 16 October 1841) was an Irish bishop.[1]

A member of the Beresford family headed by the Marquess of Waterford, Beresford was the son of the Hon. John Beresford, younger son of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone. Marcus Beresford and John Claudius Beresford were his brothers.[2]

Beresford was Dean of Kilmore from 1797 to 1801, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh between 1801 and 1802 and Bishop of Kilmore between 1802 and 1839. The latter year the Kilmore and Ardagh sees were united, and Beresford served as Bishop for the new see until his death two years later.

Beresford married Frances, daughter of Gervase Parker Bushe, daughter of Gervase Parker Bushe and Mary Grattan (sister of Henry Grattan), in 1794. They had several children, including John de la Poer Beresford, Colonial Secretary of St Vincent,West Indies, for 31 years, who married Harriet Eliza, daughter of Hon. William Wylly, Chief Justice of St Vincent, 06/05/1822. Died 16/09/1856 aged 61 at Shirley, Southampton. He is listed as receiving £148 as compensation for 6 slaves during abolition. Marcus Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh. Beresford died in October 1841, aged 76.[3][1] His wife survived him by two years and died in May 1843. His daughter Charlotte married into the Lumley family and was the mother of the ninth earl of Scarbrough.[4]

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1. ^ a b A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families of the Counties of Wilts and Hereford. C. Whittingham. 1882. p. 163. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
2. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1830. p. 852. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
3. ^ Dod, Charles Roger (1856). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. Whittaker and Company. p. 336.
4. ^ Cokayne, George (1895). The Complete Peerage (Edition 1, Volume 7). p. 77 – via archive.org.

Religious titles

Preceded by

Matthew Young

|  Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
1801–1802  | Succeeded by

Nathaniel Alexander

Preceded by

Charles Brodrick

|  Bishop of Kilmore
1802–1839  | United with See of Ardagh
New title |  Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh
1839–1841  | United with See of Elphin

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Bishops of Kilmore and Ardagh

* union from Kilmore & Ardagh
* Robert Draper
* Thomas Moigne
* William Bedell
* separate sees
* Robert Maxwell
* Francis Marsh
* William Sheridan
* Ulysses Burgh
* William Smyth
* Edward Wetenhall
* Timothy Godwin
* Josiah Hort
* Kilmore separate; Ardagh united to Tuam
* George Beresford
* merged to Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh

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Bishops of Kilmore

* John Garvey
* united to Ardagh
* William Bedell
* Robert Maxwell
* united to Ardagh
* Joseph Story
* John Cradock
* Denison Cumberland
* George Jones
* William Foster
* Charles Brodrick
* George Beresford
* merged to Kilmore and Ardagh

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Bishops of Clonfert and of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh

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* Richard Nangle
* Roland de Burgo
* Stephen Kirwan
* Roland Lynch, Bishop of Kilmacduagh

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* Robert Dawson
* William Bailey
* Edward Wolley
* William Fitzgerald
* Theophilus Bolton
* Arthur Price
* Edward Synge
* Mordecai Cary
* John Whitcombe
* Arthur Smyth
* Hon William Carmichael
* William Gore
* John Oswald
* Denison Cumberland
* Walter Cope
* John Law
* Richard Marlay
* Hon Charles Brodrick
* Hugh Hamilton
* Matthew Young
* George Beresford
* Nathaniel Alexander
* Christopher Butson
* (see merged to Killaloe and Clonfert)

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Deans of Kilmore

* John Hill
* Nicholas Bernard
* Henry Jones
* Lewis Downes
* Edward Dixie
* William Jephson
* Enoch Reader
* Richard Reader
* Jeremiah Marsh
* John Madden
* Henry Maxwell
* Charles Agar
* Thomas Webb
* George Beresford
* William Magenis
* The Hon. Henry Vesey-FitzGerald/The Lord FitzGerald and Vesey
* Thomas Carson
* John Massy-Beresford
* William Stone
* Isaac Coulter
* William Askins
* Charles Combe
* David Godfrey
* Raymond Ferguson

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