Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (16 July 1694 – 4 April 1763),[1] known as Sir Marcus Beresford, 4th Baronet, until 1720 and subsequently as The Viscount Tyrone until 1746, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.
Early life
Tyrone House, Dublin designed by Richard Cassels for Beresford as his city townhouse in 1740.
In 1701 his father died and Beresford, aged only five, succeeded to the baronetcy. His guardian was The 3rd Viscount Dungannon (1669-1706). After Lord Dungannon's death in 1706, his widow (Beresford's maternal aunt), Arabella, Viscountess Dungannon, served as Beresford's guardian.[2]
On 18 July 1717, he married Lady Catherine Power, only daughter of James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone (who was also the 8th Baron Power) and the former Anne Rickard (eldest daughter and co-heiress of Andrew Rickard, of Dangan-Spidoge). Together, they were the parents of seven sons and eight daughters, including:[7]
John Beresford (c. 1737–1805), an MP who married Countess Anne Constantin de Ligondes, a daughter of Gen. Count de Ligondes, in 1760. After her death in 1770, he married Barbara Montgomery, second daughter of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet, in 1777.[9]
Lady Catherine Beresford (d. 1763), who married Thomas Christmas MP, of Whitefield in 1748. After his death in 1749), she married Theophilus Jones, MP, of Headfort, in 1754.[11]
Lord Beresford died at Tyrone House in Dublin and was succeeded in his titles by his fourth and oldest surviving son George.[7] In 1767, four years after the earl's death, his widow claimed the title Baron La Poer and was shortly thereafter confirmed. She died in 1769.[7]
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^Flood, Warden; Bourne, Philip (1838). Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Flood, M.P., Colonel of the Volunteers: Containing Reminiscences of the Irish Commons, and an Account of the Grand National Convention of 1783 ... J. Cumming. p. 393. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
^Burke, Bernard (1879). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. London, Harrison. pp. 330–331. Retrieved 9 January 2023.