Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC KCIE ( 20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900 ) born Mullaghbrack, County Armagh, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Two goals from striker Johnathon Gallagher helped MSS to win their first silverware in their 20 + year history but it was star man Beresford who marshalled the defence and kept out the impressive Brighton forwards.

* January 8 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician ( b. 1768 )

Miles Beresford Kington ( 13 May 1941 – 30 January 2008 ) was a British journalist, musician ( a double bass player for Instant Sunshine and other groups ) and broadcaster.

Beresford was promoted to acting sub-lieutenant in January 1866.

On January 13, 1784, Beresford, who was ill, was the last delegate to arrive.

Beresford was acquainted with Evan-Thomas before the appointment, having sought advice from him on the new signal book when himself appointed second in command of the Mediterranean squadron in January 1900.

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

Lord Beresford died in January 1854, aged 85.

On 9 January Fitzwilliam informed John Beresford, First Commissioner of the Revenue and the leading supporter of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, that he was relieved of office with a pension of the same amount as his salary.

The third creation was for Admiral Lord Charles William Beresford, GCB, GCVO ( 1846 – 1919 ) as Baron Beresford, of Metemmeh and Curraghmore in the County of Waterford of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and was announced on 28 January 1916.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

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The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

Mick LaSalle from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the film is a " well-acted diversion, directed by Bruce Beresford ( Driving Miss Daisy ) with an intelligent grasp of the moment-to-moment emotion ".

Beresford wrote to Fitzwilliam on 22 June that his character had been unjustly attacked: " Direct and specific charges I could fairly have met and refuted, but crooked and undefined insinuations against private character, through the pretext of official discussion, your Lordship must allow, are the weapons of a libeller ".

The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy.

Asked if he minded not even being nominated for the Best Director Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy, Beresford said: " No, not at all.

Thereafter, the pair were credited as producers or executive producers of more than a dozen films, including the courtroom drama The Verdict ( 1982 ), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Paul Newman ; the science-fiction Cocoon ( 1985 ), directed by Ron Howard ; and the comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ), directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.

The ladies who formed the first committee were: Lady Borthwick ; the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough ( first lady president ); Lady Wimborne ; Lady Randolph Churchill ; Lady Charles Beresford ; the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford ; Julia, Marchioness of Tweeddale ; Julia, Countess of Jersey ; Mrs ( subsequently Lady ) Hardman ; Lady Dorothy Nevill ; the Honorable Lady Campbell ( later Lady Blythswood ); the Honorable Mrs Armitage ; Mrs Bischoffsheim ; Miss Meresia Nevill ( the first secretary of the Ladies Council ).

The film was produced by Phillip Adams, who became a prominent op-ed journalist and broadcaster, and directed by Bruce Beresford, who went on to direct the Academy-award winning film Driving Miss Daisy in 1989.

The commander-in-chief, it is true, never reposed in him the confidence that he gave to Beresford, Hill and Robert Craufurd.

Others who read it, including Charles ’ s brother, Lord Marcus Beresford agreed it “ ought to have never seen the light of day .” Lady Charles promptly handed over the letter to Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet, society ’ s discreet solicitor, for safe-keeping.

Tomsk was the name given by children's author Elizabeth Beresford to one of her fictional characters The Wombles, all of whom are named after places.

In 1977, she made her film debut in a minor role as Wendy in the modern Australian film, The FJ Holden directed by Michael Thornhill, and in the same year as Maria in the film adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson's colonial Australian novel, The Getting of Wisdom ( 1977 ) directed by Bruce Beresford.

Barkin was cast in the drama film Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) after impressing its director Bruce Beresford during an audition in New York City, despite her inexperience and his lack of familiarity with her work.

Beresford is quoted in her press release as saying “ Our international reputation, as environmental leaders and as peace keepers is taking a beating.

Daisy began an affair with Lord Charles Beresford, and was outraged to discover Lady Charles Beresford was pregnant by her husband.

The book features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and is the detectives ' last appearance.

It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

Among her friends were the art critic Claude Phillips, the arts patron Frank Schuster, Lady Charles Beresford and the composer Edward Elgar to whom she was known as Alice and ' Windflower '.

Ford Castle had been rebuilt in the 1760s and, in 1859, Louisa, Marchioness of Beresford inherited Ford Estate on the death of her husband, the 3rd Marquess ( who in turn, had inherited it from his mother, Susanna, Marchioness of Waterford ).

The McLaren team was considered very " multi national " for the times and consisted of team owner and leader Bruce McLaren, fellow New Zealander Chris Amon and another " Kiwi " and the 1967 Formula One World Champion, Denny Hulme, Team Manager Teddy Mayer, Mechanics Tyler Alexander, Gary Knutson, Lee Muir, George Bolthoff, Frank Zimmerman, Tom Anderson, Alan Anderson, David Dunlap, Leo Beattie, Donny Ray Everett, and Haig Altoonian ( all from the USA ), Don Beresford, Alec Greaves, Vince Higgins, and Roger Bailey ( UK ), Tony Attard ( Au ), Cary Taylor, Jimmy Stone, Chris Charles, Colin Beanland, Alan McCall and Alistair Caldwell ( NZ ).

Ultimately a dispute arose between Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who favoured increased spending and a broad deployment, and the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John Fisher, who favoured efficiency savings, scrapping obsolete vessels, and a strategic realignment of the Royal Navy relying on torpedo craft for home defence backed by the new dreadnoughts.

The stone was set in a fairly simple medallion surrounded by many smaller white diamonds, which he sometimes lent to Louisa de la Poer Beresford, the widow of his brother, Thomas Hope, for society balls.

On his fourth appearance he was extended for the first time in the Beresford Stakes.

The Century cinema, which faced Beresford Square, was demolished for redevelopment in the late 1960s.

* 122 Beresford Street in Highland Park served as the filming location for a scene in the 2002 film 8 Mile where several of the movie's characters burn down an abandoned home.

After selling his house in Raheny, in 1969 Haughey bought Abbeville, located at Kinsealy, north County Dublin, an historic house – once owned by Anglo-Irish politician John Beresford ( d. 1805 ) for whom it had been extensively re-designed by the architect James Gandon in the late 18th century.

Manuscripts 33118 ); Carlisle Correspondence ; Beresford Correspondence ; Stanhope Miscellanies ; for the Catholic question, W Anshurst, History of Catholic Emancipation ( 2 vols., London, 1886 ); Sir Thomas Wyse, Historical Sketch of the late Catholic Association of Ireland ( London, 1829 ); W. J. MacNeven, Pieces of Irish History ( New York, 1807 ) containing an account of the United Irishmen ; for the volunteer movement Thomas MacNevin, History of the Volunteers of 1782 ( Dublin, 1845 ); Proceedings of the Volunteer Delegates of Ireland 1784 ( Anon.

Having friends among the government party, including members of the Beresford family, he was able to make terms with the government, and in return for information as to what had passed between Jackson, Rowan and himself, he was permitted to emigrate to the United States, where he arrived in May 1795.

London Bus routes 51, 53, 54, 96, 99, 122, 161, 178, 244, 291, 380, 386, 422 469, 472, Night routes N1 pass the station and 7mins walk to the station from Beresford Street to New Road for bus routes 177, 180 and school routes 658 and 672.

The building of a new Custom House for Dublin was the idea of John Beresford, who became first commissioner of revenue for Ireland in 1780.

The 1986 film adaptation was directed by Bruce Beresford and garnered three Academy Award nominations, including one for Henley for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In 1910, the NID was shorn of its responsibility for war planning and strategy when the outgoing Fisher created the so-called Navy War Council as a stop-gap remedy to criticisms emanating from the Beresford Inquiry that the Navy needed a naval staff — a role the NID had been in fact fulfilling since at least 1900, if not earlier.

Once the danger had passed, Beresford, under the insistence of Silveira, called a court martial for Francisco Pizarro.

Beresford had a reputation for kindness to his men, saying ' Any smart action performed by an officer or man should be appreciated publicly by signal ... Everyone is grateful for appreciation '.

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.

Beresford passed his seamanship examination to qualify for lieutenant on board the Sutlej, which he left later in 1866.

Beresford broke a bone in his foot whilst mismounting a gun on the Excellent, an injury that caused him pain for the rest of his life.

A Daily Mail article from June 2007 quoted Sunday Times Rich List compiler Philip Beresford, who had valued the Conservative Leader for the first time, as saying: " I put the combined family wealth of David and Samantha Cameron at £ 30 million plus.

Paul Beresford, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, on 4 December 1995.