Walter Devereux

Walter Devereux may refer to:

  • Sir Walter Devereux (MP for Herefordshire) (died 1402), MP for Herefordshire 1401
  • Walter Devereux (1411–1459), Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1449–c.1451
  • Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (c. 1431–1485). Son of the above. A Yorkist politician and military officer during the Wars of the Roses
  • Walter Devereux, MP for Ceredigion, 1547
  • Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford (1488–1558), grandson of the above. Custos Rotulorum of Cardiganshire from 1543 to 1558
  • Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1541–1576), grandson of the above. Earl Marshal of Ireland from 1575 to 1576
  • Walter Devereux (died 1641) MP for Pembroke, Tamworth and Lichfield
  • Walter Devereux, 5th Viscount Hereford (1578–1658). A grandson of the first Viscount MP for Stafford and Worcestershire
  • Walter Devereux (died 1683), English MP for Orford

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    “It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
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