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| | Portrait of the Rt. Hon. John Beresford |
 | | Description: John Beresford, 1738-1805, Irish statesman, was the second son of Marcus, Earl of Tyrone, and Lady Catherine, Baroness de La Poer, the heiress of a long line of barons, and was born in Dublin 14 March 1738. |
 | | The marriage greatly strengthened the political position of Beresford, and, assisted by his plodding perseverance and undoubted merit as an administrator, he gradually succeeded in wielding an almostunlimited, though an unobtrusive and hidden, authority in Irish affairs. |
 | | Lord Fitzwilliam found on his arrival that Beresford ‘was filling a situation greater than that of the lord lieutenant himself,’ that he was ‘virtually king of Ireland,’ and that the weight of his ‘unpopularity’ with the party of Grattan would completely nullify all attempts to reconcile them. |
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