The Beresford, later Beresford-Peirse Baronetcy, of Bagnall in the County of Waterford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 May 1814 for John Beresford

Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet

Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford, 1st Baronet, GCH was an officer in the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of Second Sea Lord. He was a Tory politician in the United Kingdom.-Naval career:...

. He was an Admiral

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 in the Royal Navy

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 and also represented Coleraine

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, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northallerton

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 and Chatham

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 in the House of Commons

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. Beresford was the illegitimate son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford

George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford

George de la Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, KP, PC was an Irish politician, known as George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone from 1763 to 1789....

, and the brother of William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, GCTE, PC , was a British soldier and politician...

. He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage to Mary Molloy, the second Baronet. He died without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his nephew, the third Baronet. He was the eldest son of Henry William de la Poer Beresford-Peirse (1820-1859), eldest son of the first Baronet's second marriage to Harriett Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Peirse. He served as Chairman of the North Riding of Yorkshire

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 County Council. His grandson, the fifth Baronet, was Director-General of the Forestry Commission

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 between 1962 and 1968. As of 2008 the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the sixth Baronet, who succeeded in 1972.

Beresford, later Beresford-Peirse Baronets, of Bagnall (1814)

• Sir John Poo Beresford, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet
  Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford, 1st Baronet, GCH was an officer in the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of Second Sea Lord. He was a Tory politician in the United Kingdom.-Naval career:...
  
  (d. 1844)
• Sir George de la Poer Beresford, 2nd Baronet (1811–1873)
• Sir Henry Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, 3rd Baronet (1850–1926)
• Sir Henry Bernard de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, 4th Baronet (1875–1949)
• Sir Henry Campbell de la Poer Beresford-Pierse, 5th Baronet (1905–1972)
• Sir Henry Grant de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, 6th Baronet (b. 1933)