Beauchamp Moubray St John, 17th Baron St John of Bletso (4 December 1844 – 10 May 1912) was an English peer. St John was born at

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, the second son of

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and his wife Eleanor Hussey. He served in the

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until 1867.Bedford Borough Council Community Archives – The St John Family
He inherited the title

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on the death of his brother in 1887 without male heir to become the 17th Baron, and moved to Melchbourne Park, Bedfordshire. He served as

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from 1905 to 1912. St John married Helen Charlotte Thornton in 1869 and had a very large family. His eldest son

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succeeded to the title, followed by his second son Mowbray. His daughter Edith married

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. Helen died in 1909 and Beauchamp married, secondly, in 1911, to Ethel Susan Lutley (died 1945), daughter of John H. Lutley of Brockhampton Park, Hereford.

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