Background
A member of the Beresford family headed by the Marquess of Waterford, he was the eldest son of John Beresford.
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland
A member of the Beresford family headed by the Marquess of Waterford, he was the eldest son of John Beresford.
Beresford was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Dungarvan in 1783, a seat he held until his death fourteen years later. Beresford married Frances Arabella, daughter of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown, in 1791. They had three children:Lt John Theophilus Beresford (1792 � 19 January 1812), mortally wounded by the explosion of a magazine at the Siege of Ciudad RodrigoElizabeth Beresford (d 7 December 1856), married Felix LadbrokeWilliam Beresford (1797�1883) was a Conservative politician and government minister.
He died in November 1797, aged 33.