William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

British soldier and politician

1768 CE to 1856 CE

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, GCTE, PC (2 October 1768 – 8 January 1856), is a British soldier and politician.

A general in the British Army and a marshal in the Portuguese army, he fights with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and holds the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in Wellington's first ministry.

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