John de la Poer Beresford

1738 - 1805  (67 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John de la Poer Beresford
  Birth	14 Mar 1738
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Nov 1805
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  + 1. Marquess George de la Poer Beresford,   b. 8 Jan 1735   d. 3 Dec 1800  (Age 65 years) ▻ Elizabeth Monck + 2. John de la Poer Beresford,   b. 14 Mar 1738   d. 5 Nov 1805  (Age 67 years) ▻ Anne Constantia de Ligondes,  m. 12 Nov 1760 ;   Barbara Montgomery,  m. 1774 + 3. Rev. Baron William Beresford,   b. 16 Apr 1743   d. 6 Sep 1819, Tuam Palace, Galway, Connacht, Éire  (Age 76 years) ▻ Elizabeth FitzGibbon,  m. 16 Jun 1763 + 4. Anne Beresford   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ William Annesley
  Person ID	I450078	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	Earl Marcus Beresford,   b. 16 Jul 1694   d. 4 Apr 1763, Tyrone House, Dublin, Leinster, Éire (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Baroness Katherine Power,   b. 29 Nov 1701   d. 27 Jul 1769 (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	16 Jul 1717
  Family ID	F178094	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne Constantia de Ligondes   d. 26 Oct 1770
  Marriage	12 Nov 1760
  Children	1. Catherine de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1761   d. 1836 (Age 75 years)   2. Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1762   d. 1783 (Age 21 years) + 3. Marcus Beresford,   b. 14 Feb 1764   d. 16 Nov 1797 (Age 33 years) + 4. Bishop George de la Poer Beresford,   b. 19 Jul 1765   d. 16 Oct 1841 (Age 76 years)   5. John Claudius Beresford,   b. 23 Oct 1766   d. 20 Jul 1846 (Age 79 years)   6. Anne Constantia de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1768   d. 1836 (Age 68 years)   7. Jane de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1769   d. 1836 (Age 67 years) + 8. Rev. Charles Cobbe Beresford,   b. 2 Oct 1770   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F178492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Barbara Montgomery   d. 2 Dec 1788
  Marriage	1774
  Children	1. Araminta de la Poer Beresford,   b. Cir 1774   2. Hannah de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1775   3. Barbara de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1776   d. 1786 (Age 10 years)   4. Frances Honoria de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1777   d. Bef 1807 (Age 30 years)   5. Anna Maria de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1778   d. 1779 (Age 1 year)   6. William Barre de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1780   d. 1782 (Age 2 years)   7. James Hamilton de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1782   d. 1806 (Age 24 years)   8. Henry Barre de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1784   d. 1837 (Age 53 years)   9. Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1786   d. 1860 (Age 74 years)   10. Anna de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1787   d. 1862 (Age 75 years)   11. William Hamilton de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1788   d. 1865 (Age 77 years)   12. James David de la Poer Beresford,   b. 1789   d. 1806 (Age 17 years) + 13. Clara Barbara Beresford,   b. 1790   d. 04 Apr 1862 (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F208683	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2013

  
  

• Notes

  He was educated at Trinity College graduating in 1757, before entering parliament in 1760. He became a Commissioner of Revenue in 1770 and First Commissioner in 1780. He was Prime Minister Pitt's principal Irish advisor and wielded considerable influence in Ireland both through his position and family connections. Beresford was notorious for filling positions with family connections or friends and ensured that the Lord Lieutenant Carlisle and Chief Secretary Eden lived on in street and bridge names after they had left Ireland. When Lord Fitzwilliam came to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant in 1795, he found that Beresford 'was filling a situation greater than that of the Lord Lieutenant' and that he was virtually 'King of Ireland'. As a Wide Streets Commissioner, Beresford was responsible for bringing the architect James Gandon to Dublin to design the Custom House and in his role as the First Commissioner of Revenue he enjoyed the privilege of apartments in the completed building. This apartment were in the north eastern pavilion. After the 1798 rebellion, Beresford was sufficiently unsettled to turn the stables to the rear of Tyrone House into a torturing barracks. It is for this unfortunate lapse from genial stroke puller and political manoeuvrer into barbarity that he is mainly remembered rather than for bringing James Gandon to Ireland. The curved terrace of Beresford Place that faces the north front of the Custom House is named after him and faces the apartments that he once inhabited. Busáras It requires the greatest call on Christian charity to have to fight for a building with those officials of Departments of State who are merely administrators of a branch of fluctuating government power and who yet impose their personal whims on permanent buildings.(Michael Scott, 1955, p. 63) Busáras is situated behind James Gandon's masterpiece, the Custom House (1781-1791) and beside Beresford Place (1795-1800). The Custom House is considered architecturally the most important building in Dublin and is sited on the river front with Beresford Place to the rear. Beresford Place is a short curving terrace of five houses built on an axis with the central dome of the Custom House. The terrace was designed by Gandon in 1790 but was much simplified from his designs in execution. The Custom House was the first major public building built in Dublin as an isolated structure with four monumental façades. The eighteenth century was a period of great confidence in Dublin, with the former countryside to the north east of the medieval city being developed by the Fitzwilliam and Gardiner Estates in a series of wide streets and squares, and the work of the Wide Streets Commissioners in laying out the great civic set pieces like Parliament Street through the heart of the old city. The site chosen for the new Custom House met with much opposition from city merchants who feared that its move down the river would lessen the value of their properties while making the property owners to the east wealthier. The previous Custom House (Thomas Burgh, 1707) had being sited upriver at Essex Quay. The decision to built further down river was forced by the Rt. Hon. John Beresford (1738-1805) who was appointed Chief Commissioner from 1780 onwards and was instrumental in bringing James Gandon to Ireland. Beresford favoured shifting the city centre eastwards from the Capel - Parliament Street axis towards a new axis on College Green with Sackville Street and the construction of a new bridge linking the two sides. Naturally this was supported by the Fitzwilliam and Gardiner Estates who had much to gain. Luke Gardiner was also a Commissioner and a brother-in-law of Beresford. The Custom House was built on land reclaimed from the estuary of the Liffey when the Wide Streets Commissioners started to construct the Quays. The line of the crescent that surrounds the Custom House follows roughly the line of the old North Strand along the estuary before the construction of the Quays. On the northside of the river Liffey, it was the Gardiner Estate that held much of the property and was responsible for developing Drogheda Street into the wide boulevard that became Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). The Gardiners then proceeded to develop streets to the north of this with Rutland Square (now Parnell Square) and Cavendish Row. As construction of the Custom House went ahead, Luke Gardiner drew up plans for an axial street leading from the new Custom House Crescent to a new symmetrical square they proposed to build on high ground to the north. This street became Gardiner Street (1787 onwards) and the square was named Mountjoy Square (1792-1818). This is shown on one of the proposed designs for Mountjoy Square with a note: "Gardiner's Street extending in a right line from the centre of the new Custom House". This is a distance of some three quarters of a mile, and until the completion of the Loop Line Railway bridge, the Custom House presented a magnificent ending for the vista. Prior to this period, Lower Abbey Street was a country lane which meandered between Sackville Street and the North Strand. The old Eden Quay area followed the irregular shoreline of the river estuary. It was felt by the Wide Streets Commissioners that this should be rectified and so Abbey Street Lower and Eden Quay were driven straight through from Sackville Street to end in the new crescent allowing the Custom House to close the vista. There was also discussion about constructing a new avenue to radiate from the Custom House to the Royal Barracks (now called Collins Barracks) nearly two miles away. The other street intersecting with the crescent, Store Street West, was placed on an axis originating in the dome of the Custom House. At the time of the Custom House construction, this area was largely unbuilt land and Store Street was laid out as a short street of the same width as Gardiner Street merely for symmetry in much the same way that the Gardiners laid out Belvedere Place from Mountjoy Square as a dead-end.