Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford
- Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford
Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford (1694 – 1748) 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.
References
* [http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-DEVE-REU-1100.html Welsh Biography Online]
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