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Fraternity of F: IV 1, Henry de la Poer Beresford, third Marquis (1811-1859), was killed 

 in the hunting field. IV 2, William Beresford (1812-1850), of the First Life Guards. IV 3, James 

 Beresford (1816-1841), an officer in the army. IV 4, Sarah Elizabeth Beresford. IV 5, Henry 

 John Talbot, eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury (1803-1869), an admiral of the Royal Navy. IV 6 

 (F), John de la Poer Beresford, fourth Marquis (1814-1866), in holy orders. IV 7 (M), Chris- 

 tina Powell-Leslie (1820-1905), a noted rider to hounds. 



Fraternity of Children of F's Sib: V 1, Charles John Talbot, nineteenth Earl of Shrewsbury 

 (1830-1877), lord high steward of Ireland. V 2, Walter (Talbot) Carpenter (1834-1904), an 

 admiral of the Royal Navy. V 3, Sir Reginald Talbot (born 1841), a major-general in the army. 



Fraternity of Propositus: V 5, John Henry de la Poer Beresford, fifth Marquis of Waterford 

 (1844-1895), a captain in the army and master of the buckhounds. V 6, William Leslie de la 

 Poer Beresford (1847-1900), V.C., a colonel in the army and military secretary to the governor- 

 general of India. V 7, Marcus Beresford (born 1848), equerry to the king and manager of His 

 Majesty's stud. V 8, Delaval James de la Poer Beresford (1862-1906), an army lieutenant and 

 a rancher. V 9, (Propositus) CHARLES DE LA POER BERESFORD. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



BERESFORD, C. 1914. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. Boston: Little, 



Brown, and Co. 2 vols. 

 BURKE, SIR B., and A. BURKE. 1909. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and 



Baronetage. London: Harrison and Son. 2570 pp. 



6. GEORGE SMITH BLAKE. 



GEORGE SMITH BLAKE was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1802. He was 

 appointed to the United States navy as midshipman in 1818 and assigned to the 

 schooner Alligator. When, in 1821, the Alligator was attacked near the Cape Verde 

 islands by a Portuguese ship, the latter was captured and Blake was sent back with 

 her and a prize crew to the United States. After a few years of mercantile service, 

 Blake was commissioned lieutenant, March 1827, and cruised in the West Indies 

 after pirates. In 1835 he was appointed to the command of the schooner Experiment, 

 in the United States Coast Survey, and charted many of the bays and inlets of the 

 east coast of the United States. Blake was later for a time attached to the Phila- 

 delphia navy yard. In 1846 he was appointed to the command of the brig Perry 

 in the Gulf squadron, which was wrecked on the Florida reefs in a gale. How- 

 ever, he got her off the rocks and with a temporary rudder and jury spars brought 

 her to Philadelphia. In 1849 he was appointed to command the Mediterranean 

 squadron; and after that he was for some years assigned to various ordnance and 

 construction duties. In 1857 he was appointed superintendent of the Naval 

 Academy and served until 1865. When the Civil War broke out sympathizers 

 with the Confederacy tried to seize the frigate Constitution and the Naval Academy 

 at Annapolis, but his prompt measures saved them, and the Academy was removed 

 during the war to Newport, Rhode Island. He was prevailed upon to continue 

 the superintendency during the war at the request of the Secretary of the Navy, 

 Gideon Wells. He was commissioned commodore, July 1862, and after the war 

 was made a lighthouse inspector. He wrote the lives of naval officers for the 

 New American Encyclopedia. He died at Longwood, Massachusetts, June 24, 1871. 



Few data are available relating to Blake's personality. A study of the 

 pedigree chart shows clearly, however, that success in the navy comes easily to 

 this family. Blake's father was at the head of the legal profession in Worcester, 

 Massachusetts; he had a brother who was surgeon in the navy. George S. Blake's 

 mother was Elizabeth A. Chandler, of a distinguished conservative (Loyalist) 

 family of Worcester county, of whom some were eccentric. A sister of George 



