# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-beresford-1st-viscount-beresford
# Generated: 2026-08-16T02:59:56.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-beresford-1st-viscount-beresford"
name: "William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford"
slug: "william-beresford-1st-viscount-beresford"
description: "William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires."
tagline: "British soldier and politician (1768-1854)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Carr_Beresford%2C_Viscount_Beresford_by_Sir_William_Beechey_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1768-10-02"
deathDate: "1854-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.76793466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump