Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford


Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford was an English Peer. The Viscountcy of Hereford is the oldest extant viscountcy in the Peerage of England, making the holder the Premier Viscount of England.
Lord Hereford was the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Robert Devereux, 15th Viscount Hereford. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He was a JP and DL for Breconshire, a JP for Herefordshire and Radnorshire, and a county alderman for Monmouthshire.
On 16 July 1863 he married the Hon. Mary Anne Morgan, youngest daughter of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. They had six children.
Lord Hereford died in 1930 shortly after becoming Father of the House of Lords having been a peer for 74 years and seven months.

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