Early Life
Edward Despard was born in 1751 into a Protestant family of Huguenot and Anglo-Irish descent in Mountrath, Queens County, Ireland. He was one of five brothers all of whom except the eldest, who inherited the family estate, served in the British military. His elder brother John Despard (1745–1829) was an army officer who rose to the rank of full General.
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