Dictionary of Indian Biography/Beresford, George Read Edward
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BERESFORD, GEORGE READ EDWARD (1815–1857)
Born Aug. 3, 1815: son of Thomas Beresford: went to India, 1834–5: appointed first manager of the Cawnpur Bank, about 1843: transferred, 1849, to be the head manager of the Delhi Bank: massacred with his wife and five daughters, on May 11, 1857, at the Bank-house at Delhi, by the mutineers from Meerut: Beresford had declined the offer of escaping with his family, refusing to abandon his charge of the Bank: he and his family defended themselves on the roof of an out-house, but were overpowered: a tablet was placed to their memory in the Church at Delhi: he was a learned Oriental scholar, keen archaeologist and photographer: author of The Handbook of Delhi.