The Most Reverend

The Lord Decies

D.D.
Born
John Beresford

(1774-01-20)20 January 1774
Died1 March 1865(1865-03-01) (aged 91)
Bolam, Northumberland, England
Spouse
Charlotte Philadelphia Horsley
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(m. 1810; died 1852)​
ChildrenWilliam Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies
Hon. Georgiana Brown
Louisa Brudenell-Bruce, Marchioness of Ailesbury
Caroline Agnes Graham, Duchess of Montrose
Parent(s)William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies
Elizabeth FitzGibbon

John Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies (20 January 1774 – 1 March 1865) was an Anglo-Irish peer and clergyman.

Early life

Beresford was born on 20 January 1774. He was the second son of nine children born to William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies and Elizabeth FitzGibbon.[1] Through his brother, the Rev. George Beresford, he was an uncle to British Army officer Marcus Beresford, MP for Northallerton and Berwick-upon-Tweed,[2] and through his sister Louisa (through her marriage to Thomas Hope), he was an uncle to Henry Thomas Hope, MP, and Alexander Beresford Hope, MP. Louisa later married their first cousin, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford.[1]

His maternal grandparents were John FitzGibbon and wife Isabella (née Grove) FitzGibbon and his uncle was John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare.[1] His paternal grandparents were Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone and Lady Catharine Power (only daughter of James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone and 3rd Viscount Decies). Among his extended family were uncles George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford and John Beresford, MP for Waterford, and aunts Catherine Beresford (wife of Thomas Christmas MP and Theophilus Jones MP), Frances Beresford (wife of Henry Flood), and Eliza Beresford (wife of Col. Thomas Cobbe MP, son of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin).[1]

He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.[1]

Career

A clergyman in the Church of Ireland, he served as Rector of Tuam while his father was the Archbishop of Tuam from 1794 to 1819.[3]

Upon his father's death on 6 September 1819, he succeeded as the 2nd Baron Decies as his elder brother, Brig.-Gen. Marcus Beresford had died unmarried in 1804.[1]

Personal life

Lord Decies' youngest daughter, Caroline Agnes Graham, Duchess of Montrose.

On 26 July 1810, Beresford was married to Charlotte Philadelphia Horsley, the only daughter and heiress of the former Ellen Mary Kerr (a daughter of Andrew Seton Kerr)[1] and Robert Horsley, of Bolam House, Northumberland. Bolam House was built by Charlotte's father using stone from the ruined ancient castle on the estate which had been purchased in 1727 by his father, John Horsley.[4][5] Following his marriage, he adopted the additional surname of Horsley in accordance with the terms of his wife's inheritance.[6] Together, they were the parents of one son and three daughters:[7][8]

Lady Decies died on 9 March 1852. Lord Decies died on 1 March 1865 and was succeeded in the barony by his son William.[1]

Descendants

Through his only son and principal heir John, he was a grandfather of Caroline Catherine Horsley-Beresford (wife of Col. George Alexander Eason Wilkinson)[13] William Marcus de la Poer Horsley-Beresford, 4th Baron Decies,[14][15] John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies,[16] Hon. Seton Robert de la Poer Horsley-Beresford (who married actress Delia Dorothy O'Sullivan and Joan Rosemary Graves-Sawle),[17][18] Hon. Catherine Elizabeth Ellen Horsley-Beresford (wife of Lt.-Col. Edward J. M. Lumb),[13] Hon. Charlotte Ernestine Horsley-Beresford (wife of Maj. Cameron Barclay),[13] Hon. Henry William Walter Horsley-Beresford (who married Constance (née Blades) Levenston),[8] and Hon. William Arthur de la Poer Horsley-Beresford (who married four times).[lower-alpha 2]

Through his daughter Louisa, he was grandfather to seven, including Lady Louisa Caroline Brudenell-Bruce (wife of Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet), Lady Ernestine Mary Brudenell-Bruce (wife of William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel), Lt. George John Brudenell-Bruce (who married Lady Evelyn Mary Craven, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Craven), James Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquess of Ailesbury, Lord Robert Thomas Brudenell-Bruce (who married Emma Leigh), and Maj. Lord Charles Frederick Brudenell-Bruce (who married Margaret Renshaw).[1]

Through his youngest daughter's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose, Lady Agnes Caroline Graham (wife of Lt. Col. John Murray), Lady Beatrice Violet Graham (wife of Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville),[25] and Lady Alma Imogen Leonora Carlotta Graham (wife of Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane).[1]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Dutch-born Georgina Leonora Mosselmans (1900–1969) was the former wife of Barnard; Lord Sholto George Douglas (younger son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry);[20][21] HIH Prince Mehmed Burhameddin of Turkey (son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II); Count Ferdinand de Saurigny).[22]
  2. ↑ Hon. William Arthur de la Poer Horsley-Beresford (1878–1949) married Florence Miller, a daughter of Gardner L. Miller, in 1901.[19] They divorced in 1919 and he married Laura Coventry, eldest daughter of Capt. St John Halford Coventry, in 1919. They divorced in 1928 and he married oil heiress Georgina Leonora (née Mosselmans) de Saurigny,[lower-alpha 1] only daughter of Richard Frederick Hendrick Mosselmans,[23] in 1933. They divorced in 1940 and he married Ida Kaye in 1941.[24]

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  2. ↑ Casey, Martin. "BERESFORD, Marcus (1800-1876), of 16 Cavendish Square, Mdx". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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  8. 1 2 3 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. pp. 279–280. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
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  19. ↑ "BERESFORD-M1LLER. PROVIDENCE. R. I.. June 17. Hon. William Beresford, son of the late Lord Decies, of England, and Miss Florence Miller, daughter of Dr. Gardiner L. Miller, of this city, were married at noon to-day at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church by the Rev. George McClellan Fiske, the pastor". Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 169 (Hoosier State Chronicles). 18 June 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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  22. ↑ "Georgina Leonora Barnard Douglas (née Mosselmans)". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  23. ↑ "His Lordship Was a Hoofer". The San Francisco Examiner. 11 December 1966. p. 139. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
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  25. ↑ Law, Cheryl (2018). "Greville [née Graham], Lady (Beatrice) Violet (1842–1932), journalist and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.50387. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
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