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The Viscount Beresford | |
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![]() Lord Beresford by Sir William Beechey | |
Born | 2 October 1768 Bedgebury Cross, Kent, England |
Died | 8 January 1854 Kilndown, Kent, England | (aged 85)
Buried | 51°05′27″N 0°25′37″E / 51.090735°N 0.426909°E |
Allegiance | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Service/ | Army |
Years of service | 1785–1830 |
Rank | General (UK) Field marshal (Portugal) |
Commands | Master-General of the Ordnance |
Battles/wars | War of the First Coalition The Egyptian Campaign British invasions of the River Plate Peninsular War |
Other work | Governor of Jersey Governor of Royal Military Academy |
General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, PC (/ˈkɑːr ˈbɛrɪsfərd/; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires.