Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Hereford
Honorific-Suffix:PC
Office1:Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
Term Start1:1827
Term End1:24 November 1830
Predecessor1:The Earl of Courtown
Successor1:The 3rd Lord Foley
Term Start2:29 December 1834
Term End2:8 April 1835
Monarch2:William IV
Primeminister2:Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Predecessor2:The 4th Lord Foley
Successor2:The 4th Lord Foley
Birth Date:9 February 1777
Nationality:British
Party:Tory
Spouse:Frances Cornewall
(d. 1864)

Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford PC (9 February 1777 – 31 May 1843) was a British Tory politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1827 and 1830 and again between 1834 and 1835.

Background and education

Devereux was the son of George Devereux, 13th Viscount Hereford, and Marianna Devereux. His maternal grandfather was George Deveraux, of Tregoyd, a distant relation to the line of his father. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford.[1]

Political career

Devereux succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1804 and took his seat on the Tory benches in the House of Lords. In 1827 he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under Lord Goderich, a post he held until 1830, the last two years under the premiership of the Duke of Wellington. He held the same office (in 1834 renamed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms) from 1834 to 1835 under Sir Robert Peel. In 1830 he was admitted to the Privy Council.

Family

Lord Hereford married Frances Elizabeth Cornewall, daughter of Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet and Catherine Cornewall, on 12 December 1805. They had six children:

Lord Hereford died in May 1843, aged 67, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest surviving son, son Robert. The Viscountess Hereford died in February 1864.[1]

Notes and References

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