Marcus Beresford, 7th Baron Decies
Marcus Hugh Tristram de la Poer Beresford, 7th Baron Decies (born 5 August 1948), is an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer. Early life Beresford is the only son of Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies and Diana ( Turner-Cain) Galsworthy. His mother, a widow of Maj. David W. A. Galsworthy, was a daughter of W/Cdr George Turner-Cain. He has two sisters, Sarah Ann Vivien de la Poer Beresford and model Clare Antoinette Gabrielle de la Poer Beresford. His paternal grandfather was John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, a Representative Peer for Ireland who married two American heiresses, his grandmother Helen Gould (daughter of American railroad executive George Jay Gould I), and after her death, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (a daughter of Joseph William Drexel, who had previously been married to Harry Lehr). When asked how to pronounce his name, his grandfather Lord Decies told The Literary Digest: "With ci as in conscience it is dee-shees, and Beresford is berysford." Education and career He was educated initially at Aiglon College, Chesières-Villars, Switzerland, and from 1962 to 1967 at St Columba's College, Dublin. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin, with a Master of Letters (M.Litt.). Beresford practiced as a solicitor and rose to be Chairman of A&L