| NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Beresford, Sir John Poo (1766-1844) Knight Admiral DNB: Beresford, Sir John Poo, first baronet (1766-1844), naval officer and politician LBT ID: JoBeres1844 | B/BAP:   1766 DIED: 1844-10-02 | 
| SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com | |
| The brother of William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford; he was a naval officer and
                        Tory MP for Coleraine (1809-12, 1814-23, 1832-33), Berwick-on-Tweed (1823-26),
                        Northallerton (1826-32), and Chatham (1835-37). | |