BERES FORD

William Ca»r, Viscount, a distinguished commander, was a natural son of the first Marquis of Water ford, and bom on 2d October, 1768. He entered the army, and at the age of eighteen, while serving in Nova Scotia, had the misfortune to lose the sight of an eye by an accidental shot. He afterwards served at Toulon, and in Corsica; in the West Indies under Abercromby; and in Egypt under Baird. In 1806 he was raised to the rank of brigadier-general, and the same year commanded the huid force in the expedition to Buenos Ayres. Having been ordered to Portugal in 1808, he was intrusted there with the remodelling of the Portuguese army — ^an office which he accomplished with great succe ; and in acknowledgment of his services was created a Marshal of Portugal, Duke of Elvas, and Marquis of Santo Campo. He subsequently took part in the siege of Badajoz, and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and Bayonne. For his bravery at the battle of Toulouse he was raised to the peerage, with the title of Baron Beres ford, afterwards superseded by that of Viscount Beres ford, which was conferred on him in 1823. In political principles he was a high Conservative; and from the share which he took in forwarding troops from England to the a istance of Dom Miguel against the Constitutionalists, was deprived of his field-marahalship in 1826. In 1832 he married his cousin Louisa, daughter of the Archbishop of Tuam, and widow of Mr. Hope, the banker. He died at Bedgebuiy Park, Kent, on 8th Jan. 1854.