Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford

Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford (9 June 1694 – 29 July 1748) was a

Devereux was the son of Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford and his wife Mary Sandys, daughter of Samuel Sandys of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire. He entered Balliol College, Oxford in 1711.^[1]

In 1719 Devereux was

Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire. He was returned again for Montgomeryshire at the general elections of 1722 and 1727. In 1727 he was also returned as MP for Orford but preferred to represent Montgomeryshire where he was returned again at the 1734 general election

.

In 1740 he surrendered his seat when, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the peerage as

Merioneth.^[1]

On Devereux' death on 29 July 1748, the title passed to Edward Devereux, a distant cousin in Nantcribba, Montgomeryshire and the estate at Vaynor Park was sold.

References

^ ^a ^b "DEVEREUX, Hon. Price (1694–1748)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 August 2018.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Vaughan	Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire 1719–1740	Succeeded by Robert Williams
Preceded by William Acton	Dudley North	Succeeded by William Acton
Peerage of England
Preceded by Price Devereux	Viscount Hereford 1740–1748	Succeeded by Edward Devereux

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[HOP-1] "DEVEREUX, Hon. Price (1694–1748)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 August 2018.

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