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Leicester Devereux, 7th Viscount Hereford (1674 – buried 12 February 1683) was an English child peer of the Norman-Welsh Devereux family.

Leicester was the eldest son and heir of Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford (1617–1676) and his second wife, Priscilla Catchpole. succeeded to the title before he was 2 years old. He died at age 9 and was buried 12 February 1682/3. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Edward. Edward died at the age of 25 in 1700 and the viscountcy passed to a Welsh cousin Price Devereux of Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire.

Edward's sister Anne outlived her brothers, becoming the heiress: she married Leicester Martin. Her daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married distant cousin Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford.

References

1. "DEVEREUX of Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, Ystrad Ffin, Carmarthenshire, Vaynor and Nantariba, Montgomeryshire, Pencoyd, Brecknock, etc". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The National Library of Wales.
2. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1876. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
3. Collins, Arthur (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son. p. 19. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

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