Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford

Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford (9 June 1694 29 July 1748) was a British Peer. He was the son of Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford.

He was Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1719 until his succession in 1740, when he ranked as premier viscount of England. In 1719 he was High Sheriff of Brecknockshire, where he inherited the estate of the Morgans of Pencoyd near Hay-on-Wye. He married as his second wife (1740) a daughter of William Price of Rhiwlas, Merioneth.

On his death the title passed to Edward Devereux, a distant cousin of Nantcribba, Montgomeryshire and the estate at Vaynor Park was sold.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Vaughan
Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
17191740
Succeeded by
Robert Williams
Preceded by
Dudley North
William Acton
Member of Parliament for Orford
17271729
With: Dudley North
Succeeded by
Dudley North
William Acton
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Price Devereux
Viscount Hereford
17401748
Succeeded by
Edward Devereux


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