McPherson won the challenge, ending Beresford's career as a legislator.

In the same year Edward was involved in a personal conflict, when Lord Charles Beresford threatened to reveal details of Edward's private life to the press, as a protest against Edward interfering with Beresford's affair with Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick.

A year after Rain Man, Zimmer was asked to compose the score for Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy which, like Rain Man, won an Academy Award for Best Picture.

His credits include the UK sex comedy Percy's Progress ( 1974 ), David Baker's The Great Macarthy ( 1975 ) and Bruce Beresford's Barry McKenzie Holds His Own ( 1974 ) in which Edna was made a Dame by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

Beresford got into debt, his father consulted Admiral Eden, who arranged for Beresford's transfer in mid-1864 to the steam-corvette Clio, where Beresford would be the senior midshipman, which it was hoped would develop Beresford's sense of responsibility.

During the Second Boer War, Hood was given command of transport ships taking supplies to South Africa before being transferred to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford's flagship HMS Ramillies in the Mediterranean.

Beresford's army was too battered and exhausted to pursue, but was able to resume the investment of Badajoz.

The two V Corps divisions of Generals Girard and Gazan, preceded by a cavalry brigade, swung left to begin the Marshal's flanking move — their progress was concealed by intervening olive woods, and the first the Allies knew of them was when four French cavalry regiments burst from the southern end of the woods, crossed two brooks, and scattered Loy's Spanish cavalry on the right of Beresford's lines.

Reviewing Beresford's after action report, Wellington was unhappy with its despondent tone and commented to a staff officer " This won't do.

Beresford's corps was joined by Wellington's field army during June 1811, but even with this reinforcement time was fast running out.

Soult was outnumbered and was expelled from Portugal ; the positioning of Beresford's forces compelled the French to leave Portugal by the poor roads through Montalegre, they managed to cross the border only after sacrificing their artillery and baggage, and facing numerous difficulties.

Beresford's VC was gazetted on 23 August 1879, it is reported that when he collected his medal from the Queen he told her that " he could not in honour receive the recognition of his services unless it were shared in by Sergeant O ’ Toole ".

He subsequently served with his regiment at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and in South America as aide-de-camp to General ( afterwards Lord ) Beresford, with whom and the rest of the troops under General Beresford's command he was made a prisoner of war, and remained a prisoner for eighteen months, until released under the convention made by General Whitelock.

Pitt wrote to Fitzwilliam on 9 February that Beresford's removal was never " to my recollection ... hinted at even in the most distant manner ... much less ... without his consent " and that he should have discussed it at the meeting held on 15 November.

The recall of FitzWilliam, which was followed by such momentous consequences in the history of Ireland, was, as the viceroy himself believed, mainly due to Beresford's dismissal.

Beresford's father was a minister, and Beresford was himself partially disabled, some see autobiographical aspects to the story.

Strong box office performances were recorded in 2009-10 by Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer ; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began ; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver.

In the world of literature, Wimbledon provides the principal setting for several comic novels by author Nigel Williams ( including the best-selling The Wimbledon Poisoner and They Came from SW19 ) as well as for Elisabeth Beresford's series of children's stories about the Wombles.

Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's 1997 film Paradise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

On returning to Badajoz after his successful foray into Portugal, Mortier had left one infantry and three cavalry regiments at Campo Maior, under Latour-Maubourg, to dismantle its defences ; Beresford's appearance on 25 March caught the French by surprise.

By this time the rainstorm had cleared and Lumley, commanding Beresford's horse, could finally make out the devastation caused by the French and Polish cavalry.

Beresford's interest in the spiritual and philosophical may be best illustrated by the publisher notes to his novel, On A Huge Hill:

Also of interest is the Colecção das Ordens do Dia ( Collection of Orders of the Day ) produced by Beresford's general headquarters nos Anos de 1809 a 1823 ( for the years 1809 to 1823 ), Lisbon, 13 Vol.

His second, Lord George Cavendish, met Beresford's second ( Sir George Montgomery ) on 28 June and debated an apology by Fitzwilliam.

Henry Beresford's wife Louisa, by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Francis Grant, 1859

The town's name also owes itself to one of Beresford's commanders, Sir John Moore, who died at the hands of French forces in the Battle of Corunna.

The subsequent political crisis led in 1795 to FitzWilliam's swift removal from office, Beresford's re-instatement, and to Ponsonby's humiliating return to opposition.

Fisher, slightly senior to Beresford and more successful, became a barrier to Beresford's rise to the highest office in the navy.

The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder ( 1911 ).

Wellington himself had no illusions over Beresford's ability as a General, but he appreciated his abilities as a military organizer that he recommended, in case of his death, that Beresford succeeded him in command.

His fears of Beresford's " power and influence " had been " too well founded: I found them incompatible with mine ... and after the receipt of this, you will be prepared to decide between Mr Beresford and me and that the matter is come to this issue is well known here ".

He decided that his best course of action would be to turn the Allies ' southern flank, cutting Blake off from Beresford's army.

An example is at the Battle of Albuera, where he brilliantly turned Beresford's flank to open the battle.

Lord Charles Beresford's signature, ca.

) follow some of the original specifications that Beresford's survey crew set out as part of its plans to create a capital.

With intelligence of another approaching force — a Spanish army under General Joaquín Blake — he planned to turn Beresford's flank and interpose his army between the two.

Following further delays as Beresford's two divisions regrouped, the relieving force were ordered to hurry to Badajoz on 15 March.

Around this time though, Wellington received news of the town's surrender ; the urgency had diminished and Beresford's expedition could proceed at a more moderate pace.

Major Talaya's prolonged defence of Campo Maior gave Beresford's divisions time to arrive before the captured fortress had been slighted.

The Guadiana, a major river of Spain and Portugal that delineates part of the border, lay across Beresford's line of march.

Beresford's troops eventually had to draw on rations from the fortress-town of Elvas in order to feed themselves.

After a minor success involving the capture of an entire squadron of the 13th Light Dragoons, Latour-Maubourg retired before Beresford's superior forces, leaving 3, 000 men garrisoning Badajoz and 400 in Olivenza.

By 8 April new bridges had been thrown across the Guadiana and the following day Beresford's army moved to Olivenza ; they were now over the border and 24 kilometres ( 15 mi ) south of Badajoz.