Beresford Island

Beresford Island (50˚47'26" 128˚46'22" One of the Scott Is, off NW tip of Vancouver I). Charles William de la Poer Beresford (1846–1919), 1st Baron Beresford, was a British adm and politician. He was a junior officer aboard HMS Clio, Tribune and Sutlej on the Pacific Station (based at Esquimalt), 1864–67, and later had a distinguished naval career, serving as cdr of several warships and as naval aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales. Beresford was promoted rear adm and deputy cdr of the...

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