BERESFORD PEERAGE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 6

BERESFORD PEERAGE

George Beresford, a gardener, is claiming under tho British Legitimacy Declaration Aot, to be the lawful issue of the fifth Marquis of Waterford by his first wife, and is therefore entitled to the peerage, which is now held by the seventh Marquis, a boy of sixteen. The fifth Marquis, according to Burke and Debrett, married on July 3, 1872, Florence . Grosvenor, niece of Sir Charles Rowley, and the divorced wife of Captain tho Hon. J. C. W. Vivian. The Marchioness died a year later— Burko says without issue. The Marquis married again, and an heir was born in 1876. The "G. E. C." Peerage states that the date of the fifth Marquis's marriage to his first wife was August 9, 1872, that the ceremony took place at tho Rogister Office, St. George's, Hanover Squaro, and that the Marchioness "died on April 4, 1873, at 27 Chcsham Place, after childbirth of a still-born infant five days before, and was buried at Catlonagan." The fifth ■ Marquis some years after his second marriage met with an accident in the hunting-field which left him with a permanent injury in the neck, and in October, 1895, he died, "having shot himself." The claimant to the peerage, who was originally known as Tooth, has taken the name of Beresford. Lord Borosford is a great uncle of the present Marquiß.