title: Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford
text: # Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford
  
  Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford (3 January 1843 – 27 March 1930) was an English Peer. The Viscountcy of Hereford is the oldest extant viscountcy in the Peerage of England, making the holder the Premier Viscount of England.
  
  ## Life
  
  Lord Hereford was the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Robert Devereux, 15th Viscount Hereford. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He was a JP and DL for Breconshire, a JP for Herefordshire and Radnorshire, and a county alderman for Monmouthshire.
  
  ## Family
  
  On 16 July 1863 he married the Hon. Mary Anne Morgan, youngest daughter of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. They had six children.
  
  * Hon Robert Charles Devereux, later 17th Viscount Hereford
  * Hon Muriel Devereux (b. 11 Aug 1866; d. 5 Jul 1924), mar. 2 May 1893 Anthony Noel Denny, of La Chripa, Puerto Oratava, Tenerife
  * Hon Eleanor Mary Devereux (b. 20 Sep 1868; d. 22 Jun 1944), mar. 21 Aug 1906 Maj Albert Addams-Williams OBE
  * Hon Lilian Devereux (b. 4 Sep 1870; d. 17 Oct 1959)
  * Hon Sybil Devereux (b. 19 Jan 1873; d. 3 Mar 1892)
  * Hon Rosamond Ela Devereux (b. 23 Jul 1875; d. 3 Aug 1945)
  
  Lord Hereford died in 1930 shortly after becoming Father of the House of Lords having been a peer for 74 years and seven months.
  
  ## Arms
  
  Coat of arms of Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford :
  
  * CoronetA Coronet of a Viscount
  * CrestOut of a Ducal Coronet Or a Talbot's Head Argent eared Gules
  * EscutcheonArgent a Fess Gules in chief three Torteaux
  * SupportersDexter: a Talbot Argent eared Gules ducally gorged of the last; Sinister: a Reindeer proper horned ducally gorged and lined Or
  * MottoVirtutis Comes Invidia
  