Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans
The Duke of St Albans | |
|---|---|
The Duke by Allan Warren | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| In office 8 October 1988 – 11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 13th Duke of St Albans |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished [a] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1939 |
| Spouses | Rosemary Scoones
(m. 1963; div. 1974)Cynthia Howard
(m. 1974; div. 2001)Gillian Northam
(m. 2002) |
| Children | Lady Emma Beauclerk Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford |
| Parent(s) | Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans Nathalie Chatham Walker |
Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (born 19 January 1939), styled Earl of Burford from 1964 until 1988, is an English duke. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1988 until 1999.
Family
The only child (by his first wife) and eldest son of Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans, the 14th Duke descends from King Charles II and Nell Gwyn by their illegitimate son, Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans. He is also the senior representative of the De Vere family.
Career
Beauclerk attended Tonbridge School in Kent, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1962.[1]
Since 1989, he has served as Governor-General of the Royal Stuart Society,[2] a monarchist organization with Jacobite ties, and is also a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Drapers' Company.[1]
Marriages and issue
Murray Beauclerk married three times. On 31 January 1963 he married firstly Rosemary Frances Scoones, a daughter of Francis Harold Scoones of West Ham and his wife Rose Frances Eleanor Callis. They were divorced in 1974, having had two children:
- Lady Emma Caroline de Vere Beauclerk (born 22 July 1963), married 1991 David Craig Shaw Smellie
- Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford (born 22 February 1965)
In 1975, Rosemary Beauclerk remarried to Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth.[3][4]
On 29 August 1974, shortly after his first divorce, Beauclerk married secondly Cynthia Theresa Mary (1929–2002), daughter of Lt-Col. William James Holdsworth Howard and former wife of the late Sir Anthony Robin Hooper, 2nd Baronet.[5] They were divorced in 2001, without issue.[6][4]
In 1988, Beauclerk's father died, and he became the 14th Duke of St Albans.
The Duke married his third and current wife, Gillian Anita Northam, on 14 December 2002 in London.[4]
Arms
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Notes
- ^ Pursuant to the House of Lords Act 1999.
References
- ^ a b "Murray-de-Vere-Beauclerk-ST-ALBANS", Debrett's People of Today, online edition, Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Who's Who (2003 edition), London, p. 1899.
- ^ thepeerage.com
- ^ a b c Burke's Peerage & Baronetage.
- ^ Crooks, John & Green, Alison, editors, Debrett's People of Today 2001, Fourteenth Annual Edition, Debrett's Peerage Ltd., London, p. 1720.
- ^ The Times via WorldRoots Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Duke of St Albans
- The House of Nell Gwyn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family Archived 28 August 2015 at archive.today, Donald Adamson (William Kimber, Ldn 1974)