Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford, 6th Baron DeciesDFC (15 April 1915 – 7 November 1992) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer and soldier.[1]
On 27 October 1937, Beresford married Ann Trevor in London, England. Ann, a daughter of Sidney Walter Trevor, died on 28 March 1945. They had no children.[9]
On 12 September 1945, Lord Decies married Diana Mary (née Turner-Cain) Galsworthy (1916–2004) at Chapel Royal, Windsor, England. Diana was a daughter of W/Cdr. George Turner-Cain and Jessie Mary Smith and the widow of David William Arthur Galsworthy, a Major with the Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment who died in 1944, with whom she had one child, Anna Galsworthy. Together, Arthur and Diana were the parents of three children together:[10][9]
Marcus Hugh Tristram de la Poer Beresford, 7th Baron Decies (b. 1948), who married Sarah Jane Gunnell, daughter of Col. Basil Gunnell, in 1970. They divorced in 1974 and he married Edel Jeannette Hendron, daughter of Vincent Ambrose Hendron, in 1981.[9]
Hon. Sarah Ann Vivien de la Poer Beresford (b. 1949), who married Joerg B. Schnapka, son of Dr. Herbert Schnapka, in 1975. They divorced in 1982 she married Lt. Andrew McMeekan, son of Thomas McMeekan, in 1992.[9]
Hon. Clare Antoinette Gabrielle de la Poer Beresford (b. 1956), who married Jorge Keochlin, son of Jose Edmondo Keochlin, in 1986. They divorced in 1997.[9]
