Marcus Beresford (bishop)
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The Most Reverend Marcus Beresford |
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| Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland | |
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| See | Armagh |
| Installed | 1862 |
| Term ended | 1885 |
| Predecessor | Lord John Beresford |
| Successor | Robert Knox |
| Other posts | Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh |
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| Born | 14 February 1801 |
| Died | 26 February 1885 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Church of Ireland |
| Education | Richmond School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Marcus Gervais Beresford PC (Ire) (14 February 1801 – 26 December 1885) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1854 to 1862 and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1862 until his death.
Beresford was born in 1801 at the Custom House, Dublin, then the town house of his grandfather, John Beresford, a unionist Member of Parliament, and was a great-grandson of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone. He was the second son of George Beresford, Bishop of Kilmore and later of Kilmore and Ardagh, and of his wife Frances, a daughter of Gervase Parker Bushe and a niece of Henry Grattan. Beresford belonged to a family "connected for generations with the highest dignity and power in the civil and ecclesiastical administration of Ireland"
Educated at Richmond School under Dr Tate and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated BA in 1824, MA in 1828 and DD in 1840. He was later awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford in 1864.
In 1824, Beresford was ordained deacon and in 1825 priest, and was quickly appointed Rector of Kildallon, County Cavan, a parish in his father's diocese of Kilmore. Three years later, he was preferred to the vicarages of Drung and Larah in the same diocese, benefices which he held until 1839 when he became archdeacon of Ardagh when Ardagh was united with Kilmore. His father was succeeded by Bishop Leslie, but on Leslie's death in 1854 Beresford followed in his father's footsteps as bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh and was consecrated in Armagh Cathedral on 24 September 1854.
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