John Beresford

1 portrait by Gilbert Stuart

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John Beresford

by Charles Howard Hodges, after Gilbert Stuart
mezzotint, published 1790
14 in. x 10 3/4 in. (359 mm x 277 mm)
Reference Collection
NPG D701

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  • Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837), Portrait painter and mezzotint engraver. Artist or producer associated with 42 portraits.
  • Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 61 portraits.

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Born in Dublin and educated at Oxford, Beresford became Archbishop of Dublin in 1820 and then Primate of all Ireland from 1822. He strongly opposed the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1829. It was passed, however, finally allowing Catholics to sit in Parliament and hold all offices of state apart from Regent, Lord lieutenant and Lord Chancellor.

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Attempts to modify the Test and Corporation Acts are defeated, despite campaigning by dissenters such as the prominent Unitarian preacher and pamphleteer, Richard Price. The Acts prevented those outside the established church from holding government or military office.

Art and science

Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibits his first painting at the Royal Academy; a watercolour of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth.
The Firth to Clyde and Oxford to Birmingham canals are begun.

International

Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France. A landmark work of opposition to the Revolution which offered a critique of the radical philosophy behind events in France; the Reflections have been read as an articulation of the foundations of modern British conservatism. George Vancouver explores the north west coast of America.

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