Marcus Beresford, 7th Baron Decies

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Decies
Born
Marcus Hugh Tristram de la Poer Beresford

(1948-08-05) 5 August 1948 (age 75)
EducationAiglon College
St Columba's College, Dublin
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Spouses
Sarah Jane Gunnell
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(m. 1970; div. 1974)​
Edel Jeannette Hendron
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(after 1981)​
Children4
Parent(s)Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies
Diana Turner-Cain Galsworthy

Marcus Hugh Tristram de la Poer Beresford, 7th Baron Decies (born 5 August 1948), is an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer.[1]

Early life

Beresford is the only son of Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies and Diana (née Turner-Cain) Galsworthy.[2] His mother, a widow of Maj. David W. A. Galsworthy, was a daughter of W/Cdr George Turner-Cain.[3] He has two sisters, Sarah Ann Vivien de la Poer Beresford and model Clare Antoinette Gabrielle de la Poer Beresford.[4][3]

His paternal grandfather was

Literary Digest: "With ci as in conscience it is dee-shees, and Beresford is berysford."[10]

Education and career

He was educated initially at Aiglon College, Chesières-Villars, Switzerland, and from 1962 to 1967 at St Columba's College, Dublin. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin, with a Master of Letters (M.Litt.). Beresford practiced as a solicitor and rose to be Chairman of A&L Goodbody, the leading Irish corporate law firm.[a][citation needed] He was a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He succeeded to the title of 7th Baron Decies, of Decies, County Waterford in 1992.[3]

Other activities

Lord Decies was a trustee of the Alfred Beit Foundation from 1999 to 2014 and chairman from 2008 to 2014. He is also a trustee of the Apollo Foundation.[11][failed verification] He has also been involved in the world of education being a member of the boards of Alexandra College in Dublin, Hewetson's School in Millicent, Ireland (of which he was chairman from 1992 to 1995),[12][failed verification] and St Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland.[citation needed]

Family

He married, firstly, Sarah Jane Gunnell, daughter of Colonel Basil Gunnell on 11 April 1970.[citation needed] They divorced in 1974. He remarried in 1981 to Edel Jeannette Hendron. Since 1989 the couple have resided in Straffan, County Kildare,[b] and have three children:[3]

  • Hon. Louisa Katherine de la Poer Beresford (b. 1984)[3]
  • Hon. Robert Marcus Duncan de la Poer Beresford (b. 1988)[3]
  • Hon. David George Morley Hugh de la Poer Beresford (b. 1991)[3]

Interests

The couple are equine enthusiasts,[citation needed] and trained racehorses locally with Arthur Moore for many years.[c] His wife is a keen sportswoman who fly-fishes for Ireland and is involved with charitable causes, including the Irish Haemophilia Society.[citation needed]

He has an interest in history stimulated by his ancestors,

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, PC (1768–1854), who was a general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army; he fought alongside The Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in Wellington's first ministry. In 2019 the Irish Academic Press published his biography of the general.[13]

Beresford is a member of both the Irish and British Commissions for Military History.[14][15][failed verification] He is chairman of the trustees of the British Cemetery, Elvas,[citation needed] a member of the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras and the Waterford Historical Society.[16][failed verification]

Arms

Coat of arms of Marcus Beresford, 7th Baron Decies
Crest
A Dragon's Head erased Azure transfixed in the neck with a broken Tilting Spear Or the Point broken off Argent transfixing the upper jaw charged with a Mullet for difference.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent semée of Cross Crosslets fitchée three Fleurs-de-lis within a Bordure engrailed all Sable (Beresford); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Chief indented Sable (de la Poer); a Mullet Argent for difference.
Supporters
On either side an Angel proper vested Argent crined and winged Or each holding in the exterior hand a Sword erect of the first pommelled and hilted of the second and charged on the breast with a Mullet for difference.
Motto
NIL NISI CRUCE
Nothing without the Cross.

Bibliography

Journals

  • "Ireland in French strategy 1691-1789", Post Graduate thesis (M.Litt.)
  • "François Thurot and the French attack at Carrickfergus, 1759-60", The Irish Sword, X (41), 255-74.
  • "Ireland in French Strategy during the American War of Independence, 1776-83", The Irish Sword, XII (49), 285-97 and XIII (50), 20-29.
  • "William Carr Beresford and the capture of the Cape Colony and the expedition to the River Plate 1805-1806", The Irish Sword XXIX (P. 240 – 262)
  • "
    Francois Thurot
    , the Irish connection", Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, LXXVIII (1973), 143-50.
  • "The Peninsular romance of Lieutenant Waldron Kelly and Ana Ludovina de Aguilar", The Irish Sword, XXXII (129) 2020, 299–316.

Books

Notes

  1. ^ He won the Law Society's Patrick O'Connor Memorial Prize
  2. ^ Straffan Lodge, originally dating from the 1700s, was where the Irish artist Francis Bacon lived from 1909 to 1926; a previous owner, Robert Guinness of the Guinness banking family, bought the property in 1968 and lived there for 20 years.
  3. ^ including Marcus du Berlais, which placed second and third in the 2004 and 2005 Grand Nationals, and the mare Fag an Bealach.

References

  1. ^ Armourial coat-of-arms
  2. ^ "DECIES". The Daily Telegraph. 11 November 1992. p. 24. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1063.
  4. ^ "Miss Beresford to Wed". The New York Times. 23 February 1986. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  5. ^ "LORD DECIES DIES IN ENGLAND AT 77; Soldier, Sportsman, Friend of Taxpayer--Married Gould Heiress Here in 1911". The New York Times. 2 February 1944. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  6. ^ "LADY DECIES DIES AT 38 IN LONDON; Former Helen Vivien Gould Was Principal in Brilliant International Wedding of 1911.WAS NOTED AS HOSTESS Her Entertaining Was a Feature of British Capital--Husband Is Distinguished Irish Peer. LADY DECIES DIES AT 38 IN LONDON". The New York Times. 3 February 1931. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  7. ^ "LORD DECIES DUE HERE.; Widower of Former Vivien Gould Arrives Today on Mauretania". The New York Times. 3 March 1931. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ^ Photo, Times Wide World (4 February 1931). "FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR LADY DECIES; Body of Former Helen Vivien Gould, Who Died Yesterday in London, to Be Cremated". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  9. ^ TIMES, Wireless to THE NEW YORK (12 May 1936). "DECIES TO MARRY MRS. HARRY LEHR; Widow of New York Leader of Society to Become Bride of Irish Peer on May 23. ANNOUNCEMENT IN PARIS Bride-Elect Member of Drexel Family -- Wrote Book, 'King Lehr and Gilded Age.'". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  10. ^ Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.
  11. ^ "Index of /". apollofoundation.org. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Home". www.hewetson.ie. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  13. ^ Marshal William Carr Beresford
  14. ^ "The Military History Society of Ireland". www.mhsi.ie. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  15. ^ "British Commission for Military History". Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  16. ^ "The Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, Ireland". www.waterford-history.org. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Decies
1992–present 		Incumbent
Heir-apparent:
Hon. Robert Beresford


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