George de la Poer Beresford (22 April 1831 – 3 August 1906) was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Beresford was the son of the Most Reverend Marcus Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh

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, son of the Right Reverend George Beresford

George Beresford (clergyman)

The Right Reverend George de la Poer Beresford , was an Irish clergyman.A member of the Beresford family headed by the Marquess of Waterford, Beresford was the son of John Beresford, younger son of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone...

, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, son of John Beresford, younger son of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone

Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone

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. His mother was Mary, daughter of Henry Peisley L'Estrange. He was elected to the House of Commons

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 for Armagh City

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 in 1875, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished. In 1887, he was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh

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Beresford married Mary Annabella, daughter of Reverend William Vernon Harcourt

William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)

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 and sister of Sir William Vernon Harcourt

William Vernon Harcourt (politician)

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, in 1860. He died in August 1906, aged 75. His wife survived him by eleven years and died in July 1917.