Osborne de Vere Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans (16 October 1874 – 2 March 1964) was a British peer and

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. He was styled ''Lord Osborne Beauclerk'' from 1874 to 1934.

Early life

Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of

William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, PC DL (15 April 1840 – 10 May 1898), styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era. The Duke served in William Gladstone's ...

, and, his second wife, Grace Bernal-Osborne of

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, daughter of

Ralph Bernal Osborne Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician. Life He was the eldest son of London Sephardic Spani ...

, descendant of the politician and actor

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. From his father's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother,

Charles Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans Charles Victor Albert Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans (26 March 1870 – 19 September 1934) was a British peer and soldier, known as Earl of Burford before 1898. Beauclerk was the eldest son of the 10th Duke of St Albans an ...

, who suffered from severe depression all his life. His father was the only son of

William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849) was an English aristocrat and cricketer. Early life William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was born on 24 March 1801. He was the son of William Beauclerk, 8th D ...

, and Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of Major General Joseph Gubbins.

Career

Lord Osborne (known as ''Obby'') was commissioned as a

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into the

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on 7 December 1895 and promoted to

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on 4 July 1896. He served with his regiment in South Africa during the

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, during which he was promoted to

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on 1 July 1901, and returned to the United Kingdom in December 1901. Following his return, he resigned from the army in September 1902, and was appointed captain of the

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, a

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regiment, on 20 December 1902. In 1911 and 1913 he set off on a trip to

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where he was involved in a prospective mining investment at

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; part of his time there was spent camping with partners British travelogue writer

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and the American mining engineer

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. At the outbreak of

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, Captain Beauclerk was appointed aide-de-camp to

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, serving in France. Upon the death of his elder half-brother on 19 September 1934, he succeeded to the family titles and estates.

Personal life

On 19 August 1918, he married Beatrix Beresford, Dowager Marchioness of Waterford, GBE, DStJ, and daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. He succeeded his

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in the family titles in 1934. In his late eighties, St Albans spent a month travelling throughout America on a

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unlimited travel pass.''Auden's Ghost's: Osborne Beauclerk''

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He died in 1964, aged 89 without children, when the

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devolved upon his second cousin, Charles St Albans who succeeded as the 13th

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.''The House of Nell Gwyn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family''

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(William Kimber, Ldn 1974)

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