William Carr Beresford 1st Viscount 1st Count of Trancoso Marquess of Campo Maior October 2, 1768 Ireland January 8 1856
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Count of Trancoso, 1st Marquess of Campo Maior GCB GCH GCTE (October 2, 1768, Ireland – January 8, 1856, Bedgebury), British soldier and politician, illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford. A general in the British Army and a marshal in the Portuguese army, who fought with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and in 1828 held the office of master-general of the ordnance in Wellington's first ministry. In that same year he was sent to Madeira, which he occupied in name of the King of Portugal, remaining there for six months as Governor and Commander in Chief. The exiled Portuguese Government in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, whereto the Portuguese Royal Family had transfered the Court, realised the necessity of appointing a commander-in-chief capable of disciplining the Portuguese Army organized by general Miguel pereira Forjaz whom Wellington "the ablest man in the Peninsula". The Portuguese government asked Britain to appoint Arthur Wellesley to this role, and he indicated Beresford. He was appointed Marshal and Commander in Chief of the Army by Decree of March 7, 1809 and took the command on the 15th of the same month. At that time, Marshal Soult had already crossed into Portugal where he occupied Oporto. Beresford quickly improved the discipline and organization of the forces placed under his command. From the General Headquarters, then at the Largo do Calhariz, he dispatched many "daily orders" altering some points of the Infantry ordnance, creating a general command of Artillery, establishing the separation of the battalions and hiring and firing officers. On April 22 Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, disembarked in Lisbon, and took over the command of all the Anglo-Portuguese troops and he was nominated Marshall General of the Portuguese Army. The allied armies marched to the North. Wellington moved from Coimbra directly to Porto, which he entered on May 1
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