Lord John George de la Poer Beresford PC (Ire) (22 November 1773 – 18 July 1862)[1] was an Anglican archbishop and Primate.

Born at Tyrone House, Dublin, he was the second surviving son of George de La Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford[2] and his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of Henry Monck and maternal granddaughter of Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland.

[3] Beresford employed Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, one of the most skilled architects at that time, to restore Armagh's St Patrick's Cathedral.

Cottingham removed the old stunted spire and shored up the belfry stages while he re-built the piers and arches under it.

[citation needed] Beresford is unsympathetically represented by Montalembert with whom he had breakfast at Gurteen de la Poer during his tour of Ireland.