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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford.
British soldier and politician (1768-1854)
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About William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. 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 the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires.
Everything about William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford →- Occupation
- politician, military officer
- Position held
- member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom, Master-General of the Ordnance
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Portugal, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 2, 1768
- Died
- January 8, 1854