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| Born | Marcus Hugh Tristram de la Poer Beresford 5 August 1948 |
| Education | Aiglon College St Columba's College, Dublin |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Spouses | Sarah Jane Gunnell (m. 1970;div. 1974)Edel Jeannette Hendron (after 1981) |
| Children | 4 |
| 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]
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 John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, [5] an Irish representative peer who married two American heiresses, his grandmother Helen Gould (daughter of American railroad executive George Jay Gould I), [6] [7] [8] and after her death, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (a daughter of Joseph William Drexel, who had previously been married to Harry Lehr). [9] When asked how to pronounce his name, his grandfather Lord Decies told The Literary Digest : "With ci as in conscience it is dee-shees, and Beresford is berysford." [10]
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. [lower-alpha 1] [ 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]
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 ]
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, [lower-alpha 2] and have three children: [3]
The couple are equine enthusiasts,[ citation needed ] and trained racehorses locally with Arthur Moore for many years. [lower-alpha 3] 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, William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (1743–1819), who was the Archbishop of Tuam, and 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 ]
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