William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849) was an English

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and

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Early life

William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was born on 24 March 1801. He was the son of

William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans (18 December 1766 – 17 July 1825) was an English aristocrat. Early life and career William was born on 18 December 1766. He was the second son of Lady Catharine Ponsonby and Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duk ...

, and his second wife, the former Maria Janetta Nelthorpe. His paternal grandparents were Lady Catharine Ponsonby and

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 ...

, a Whig Member of Parliament for Thetford from 1761 to 1768 and for Aldborough from 1768 to 1774. His mother was the only daughter and heiress of John Nelthorpe of

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Hall (the former

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) and Mary Cracroft (second daughter, by his first wife, of Robert Cracroft of

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Hall).

Cricket

He played a

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match for

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in 1817. He was a member of the

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Memorial to William Aubrey De Vere in Highgate Cemetery

Personal life

On 16 June 1827, he married Harriet (née Mellon) Coutts (1777–1837), who was 23 years his elder, in London. Harriet, the widow of banker

Thomas Coutts Thomas Coutts (7 September 1735 – 24 February 1822) was a British banker. He was a founder of the banking house Coutts & Co. Early life Coutts was the fourth son of Jean (née Steuart) Coutts and John Coutts (1699–1751), whose business i ...

and daughter of Lt. Matthew Mellon, was an actress who eventually starred at

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. She died on 6 August 1837 and left her fortune to her step-granddaughter, who changed her surname to

Angela Burdett-Coutts Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts ( Burdett; 21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Co ...

. On 29 May 1839, he married, secondly, to Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins (–1893) in Harby, Leicestershire. Elizabeth was the youngest daughter of Maj.-Gen. Joseph Gubbins of Kilfrush, by his first wife Charlotte Bathoe (a daughter of James Bathoe). They had three children: * William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans (1840–1898), who married Sybil Mary Grey, a daughter of Lt.-Gen. The Hon. Sir Charles Grey and granddaughter of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey. After her death in 1871, he married Grace Bernal-Osborne, a daughter of Secretary of the Admiralty

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and granddaughter of

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. * Lady

Diana de Vere Beauclerk Diana de Vere Beauclerk, Lady Huddleston (10 December 1842 – 1 April 1905) was an English writer. She wrote ''Summer and Winter in Norway'' (1868) and ''True Love'' (1869) under the name Lady Di Beauclerk. Life Lady Diana de Vere Beauclerk ...

(1842–1905), who married Sir John Walter Huddleston. Appeared in W. P. Frith's famous painting of the marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1863 and also in his 1881 work '' A Private View at the Royal Academy''. * Lady Charlotte Beauclerk (b. 1849) He died on 27 May 1849. There is a memorial to him in

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(west side) with an inscription which reads: ''To the memory of William Aubrey De Vere, 9th Duke of St Albans, for many years proprietor of Holly Lodge, Highgate, Born March 24th 1801, Died May 26th 1849''. After his death, his widow remarried, as his second wife, Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount of Falkland (formerly the

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and

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), on 10 November 1859. They were married until his death in 1884. The Viscountess Falkland died on 2 December 1893 at

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Descendants

Through his son, he was a grandfather of

Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans Osborne de Vere Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans (16 October 1874 – 2 March 1964) was a British peer and Army officer. He was styled ''Lord Osborne Beauclerk'' from 1874 to 1934. Early life Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of William ...

, Lady Moyra Beauclerk (wife of Lord Richard Cavendish, grandson of

William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and Earl of Burlington between 1834 and 1858, was an English Aristocracy, aristocrat, Land tenure, landowner ...

), Lady Katherine Beauclerk (wife of Henry Somerset, a grandson of

Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1 February 1824 – 30 April 1899), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1835 and Marquess of Worcester from 1835 to 1853, was a British peer, soldier, and Conservative politician. He served as Mas ...

and secondly, Maj.-Gen. Sir William Lambton, son of

George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (5 September 1828 – 27 November 1879), styled Viscount Lambton from 1833 to 1840, was a British peer. Early life Lambton was born on 5 September 1828 at Copse Hill, Wimbledon and was baptise ...

), Lady Alexandra Beauclerk, and Lord William Beauclerk, who both died unmarried.

References

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