| Denis Pack-Beresford | |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for County Carlow |
| Term Start: | 7 August 1862 |
| Term End: | 18 November 1868 |
| Predecessor: | William McClintock-Bunbury Henry Bruen |
| Alongside: | Henry Bruen |
| Successor: | Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh Henry Bruen |
| Birth Name: | Denis William Pack |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1818 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Children: | Nine, including Denis Robert |
| Parents: | Denis Pack Lady Elizabeth Louisa Beresford |
Denis William Pack-Beresford (7 July 1818 – 28 December 1881), known as Denis William Pack until 1854, was an Irish Conservative Party politician.[1]
Pack was the son of decorated military officer Denis Pack and Elizabeth Louisa Beresford. In early life, Pack was a Captain of the Royal Artillery. Upon inheriting estates from his uncle, General William Carr Beresford, in 1854, he also inherited the arms of Beresford, and assumed the additional surname. In 1856, he became a High Sheriff.[1]
Pack-Beresford then married Annette Caroline Browne, daughter of Robert Clayton Browne and Harriette Augusta Hamilton, in 1863. Together, they had nine children:[1]
He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Carlow at a by-election in 1862 and held the seat until standing down at the 1868 general election.[2]
In later life, Pack-Beresford was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.[1]
| Escutcheon: | Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent semee of cross crosslets fitchee three fleurs-de-lis two and one Sable within a bordure wavy Pean (Beresford) 2nd & 3rd quarterly Sable and Erminois in the first quarter a sword in bend sinister Argent pommelled and hilted Or encircled by a wreath of the last in the fourt quarter a cinquefoil of the third pendant from a crimson riband bordered blue in the centre chief a representation of the Golden Cross and Clasps presented to the said Major General Sir Denis Pack KCB by His Majesty King George the Thurd in Testimony of his Royal approbation of the signal valour displayed by him the said Major General Pack in divers actions with the Enemy in the Peninsula of Spain (Pack). |
| Crest: | 1st issuant from a mural crown Or a dragon's head per fess wavy Azure and Gules the lower part of the neck transfixed by a broken spear in the mouth the remaining part of the spear the point upwards Or (Beresford) 2nd on a wreath of the colours a mural crown Argent issuing therefrom a lion's head Gules gorged with a wreath Or (Pack). |
| Motto: | Nil Nisi Cruce |
| Notes: | Confirmed 26 March 1854 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[3] |