Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford

Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford (19 February 1741 – 1 August 1783)[1] was an English hereditary peer who sat in the House of Lords as Premier Viscount. He was Colonel of the Montgomeryshire Militia from 1764 to 1778.[2]

Family

He was the son of Edward Devereux, 11th Viscount Hereford and his wife Catherine Mytton (d. 1748).[3]

Lord Hereford married Henrietta‌‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌Charlotte‌‌‌‌ Tracy (d. 1817), the daughter of Susan and Anthony Keck. Henrietta was born Henrietta Charlotte Keck, but changed her surname to Tracy in 1774 — before her marriage — as a condition of inheriting her uncle Robert Tracy's estate.[4][5] Edward and Henrietta had no children and the Viscountcy was inherited by Edward's younger brother George Devereux.

See also

References

  1. ^ Ancestry.com — Edward Devereux
  2. ^ Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham: Bridge Books, 2000, ISBN 1-872424-85-6, pp. 16–9, Appendix 1.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
  4. ^ "Keck [née Hamilton], Lady Susanna [Susan] (bap. 1706, d. 1755), political manager". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68355. Retrieved 29 March 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1774 (14 Geo. 3). c. 38
Peerage of England
Preceded by Viscount Hereford
1760–1783 		Succeeded by


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