Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford

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Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford (16941748) 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 sheriff of Brecknock, 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 reverted to Edward Devereux, a distant relative.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Vaughan
Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
1719–1740
Succeeded by
Robert Williams
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Price Devereux
Viscount Hereford
1740 – 1748
Succeeded by
Edward Devereux