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Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans (21 August 1765 – 12 August 1815) was an English aristocrat and politician.


Early life

Beauclerk was born on 21 August 1765. He was the eldest son of
Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans (3 June 1740 – 9 February 1802) was a British landowner, and a collector of antiquities and works of art. Early life Aubrey Beauclerk was born in 1740, the son of Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron V ...
by his wife Lady Catherine Ponsonby. Among his sibling were Lord William Beauclerk, Lord Amelius Beauclerk ( First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to
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), Lady Catherine Beauclerk (who married Rev. James Burgess, Vicar of Hanworth), and Lady Caroline Beauclerk (who married Hon.
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, fourth son of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas). His father was the eldest surviving son of
Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (14 July 1699 – 21 October 1781), known as Lord Vere Beauclerk until 1750, was a Royal Navy officer, British peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 24 years from 1726 to 1750. After s ...
(third son of
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, KG (8 May 167010 May 1726) was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwyn. Biography His surname, Beauclerk ( Anglo-Norman for "fine scholar"), had been an epithet of ...
) and Mary Chambers (eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Chambers of Hanworth Park, Middlesex). In 1781, Beauclerk's father inherited
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, and after becoming the 5th Duke in 1787 following the death of his unmarried cousin
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. The 5th Duke sold Hanworth shortly after 1802 to James Ramsey Cuthbert. His maternal grandparents were
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(who served in both the Irish and the
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, and held office as a
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,
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,
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, a
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, and
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) and Lady Caroline Cavendish (eldest daughter of
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).


Career

He entered the Foot Guards in 1781 and was appointed a captain of
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on 30 July 1783 and a Lt Colonel in 1789. On 16 February 1788, he joined Brooks's Club, the exclusive
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, where he played
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.


Member of Parliament

Soon after his marriage to Jane Moses, Beauclerk was approached by
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(the husband of Lady Fitzwilliam his aunt, the former Lady Charlotte Ponsonby) to become a candidate for the
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constituency in order to revive "the old Rockingham-Savile interest which before 1784 had been able to name one Member." Beauclerk felt unable to come forward without the support of Sir Henry Etherington, his wife's uncle and former guardian, who was sympathetic to sitting Member Walter Spencer Stanhope, who helped negotiate Aubrey's marriage to his heiress wife. After unsuccessfully approaching
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, Fitzwilliam brought Beauclerk forward shortly before the 1790 general election and Etherington was persuaded to give his support. With the backing of Fitzwilliam, Beauclerk was able to force Stanhope's retirement and Beauclerk was elected. He represented the constituency of Kingston upon Hull from 1790 to 1796, but never spoke. "He sided with opposition in the Oczakov divisions," by pair on 12 April 1791 and by vote on 1 March 1792, and was a supporter of repeal of the
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in Scotland in 1791, but was listed a "
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Whig in December 1792 and ceased to act with opposition." After the death of his father on 9 February 1802, Aubrey became the 6th Duke of St Albans, the 6th Earl of Burford, the 6th Baron Heddington, and the 3rd Baron Vere of Hanworth.


Personal life

On 9 July 1788, he married his first wife, Jane Moses (1766–1800). Jane was daughter of John Moses, of Hull in
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, and his first wife Margaret Etherington, who died at or shortly after her birth. She had been raised by her stepmother (her father's third wife, whom he had married three months before his death in 1773), Margaret Cave (daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, Bt.) Together, Aubrey and Jane were the parents of one child: * Lady Mary Beauclerk (1791–1845),G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, p. 475. who married
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. After his first wife's death on 18 August 1800, he married for the second time to Lady Louisa Grace Manners (1777–1816) on 15 August 1802 in
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. Lady Louisa was the fifth daughter of John Manners, MP, and Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart. The new duchess was said to have been "one of the brightest stars in the fashionable hemisphere" in the early years of her marriage. Together, they had one child: * Aubrey Beauclerk, 7th Duke of St Albans (1815–1816), who died in infancy. Lord St Albans died on 12 August 1815, four months after the birth of his heir, the 7th Duke. His widow and son both died on 19 February 1816 (at the home of her sister, the former Lady Laura Manners, wife of John Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair, in
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, London) and the titles were inherited by the 6th Duke's younger brother William, who became the 8th Duke of St Albans, who had thirteen children.


References

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