After his death Lady Beresford continued to reside with her young family at his place in the county of Derry, and seldom went from home.

She hardly mingled with any neighbours or friends, excepting with Mr.and Mrs.Jackson, of Coleraine.

He was the principal personage in that town, and was, by his mother, a near relative of Sir Tristram.

His wife was the daughter of Robert Gorges, LL.D.

(a gentleman of good old English family, and possessed of a considerable estate in the county Meath), by Jane Loftus, daughter of Sir Adam Loftus, of Rathfarnham, and sister of Lord Lisburn.