About Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford
Lived 1741 – 1783 (aged 41–42). Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford was a British military personnel.
Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford (19 February 1741 – 1 August 1783) was an English hereditary peer who sat in the House of Lords as Premier Viscount. He was Colonel of the Montgomeryshire Militia from 1764 to 1778.
Family He was the son of Edward Devereux, 11th Viscount Hereford and his wife Catherine Mytton (d. 1748).
Lord Hereford married Henrietta Charlotte Tracy (d. 1817), the daughter of Susan and Anthony Keck. Henrietta was born Henrietta Charlotte Keck, but changed her surname by a private act of Parliament, (14 Geo. 3. c. 38 ), to Tracy in 1774 — before her marriage — as a condition of inheriting her uncle Robert Tracy's estate. Edward and Henrietta had no children and the Viscountcy was inherited by Edward's younger brother George Devereux.
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Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford was born in 1741.
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Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford died on 1 August 1783.
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Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford was a military personnel.
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Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford was British.
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