Beresford, William Carr, Viscount, an English general, natural son of the first Marquis of Waterford; distinguished himself in many a military enterprise, and particularly in the Peninsular war, for which he was made a peer; he was a member of the Wellington administration, and master-general of the ordnance (1770‒1854).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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