General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior (1768 - 1856), was a British soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a marshal in the Portuguese army, he fought with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in Wellington's first minisy.
Beresford County, New South Wales, Australia was named in his honour.
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PW Tomkins after Sir William Beechey RA (1753-1839)