John served on the council of the Beresford Family Society for many years, as honorary secretary and as chairman. On his return from national service, John was very active in the national and international scout movement. He was an air scout leader in Surbiton, A member of the chief Scouts advance party for updating scouting

One of the attributes of early members of our family was the encouragement of learning, however one family member who did more than anyone to encourage this was Canon James Beresford, youngest son of Thomas and Agnes. Born around 1455 Canon James commenced 4 years of study in canon law at St John’s College, Cambridge

At 0400 on Sunday 13 May 1787, the signal was give to weigh anchor. Eleven ships of the fleet under Captain Arthur Phillip RN left Portsmouth and set out on an arduous eight-month journey to a virtually unknown shore half a world away. Amongst the 1,300 men and women on board the eleven ships was

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, GCB GCVO (1846-1919) was a British Admiral and a Member of Parliament. He was the second son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 as a cadet and became a Lieutenant in1874. He became aide-de-camp to

Hugh aged 24, was the ‘A’ Flight commander of 257 Squadron, which was in action almost daily during the critical Battle of Britain, on which the fate of the country depended in the summer of 1940. On the 18th August hehad already been up with his squadron three times and at 1653 hrs their Hurricane