The Duke of St Albans | |
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Born | Lord Osborne de Vere Beauclerk 16 October 1874 |
Died | 2 March 1964 89) | (aged
Spouse | |
Parent(s) | William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans Grace Bernal-Osborne |
Relatives | Charles Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans (half-brother) Ralph Bernal Osborne (grandfather) William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (grandfather) |
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.
Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, and, his second wife, Grace Bernal-Osborne of Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of Ralph Bernal Osborne, descendant of the politician and actor Ralph Bernal. From his father's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Charles Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans, who suffered from severe depression all his life. [1]
His father was the only son of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, and Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of Major General Joseph Gubbins. [2]
Lord Osborne (known as Obby) was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 17th Lancers on 7 December 1895 and promoted to lieutenant on 4 July 1896. He served with his regiment in South Africa during the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to captain on 1 July 1901, [3] and returned to the United Kingdom in December 1901. [4] Following his return, he resigned from the army in September 1902, [5] and was appointed captain of the South Nottinghamshire Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment, on 20 December 1902. [6]
In 1911 and 1913 he set off on a trip to British Columbia, Canada where he was involved in a prospective mining investment at Cassiar, British Columbia; part of his time there was spent camping with partners British travelogue writer Warburton Pike and the American mining engineer Marshall Latham Bond. [7] At the outbreak of World War I, Captain Beauclerk was appointed aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, serving in France.
Upon the death of his elder half-brother on 19 September 1934, he succeeded to the family titles and estates. [8]
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 half-brother in the family titles in 1934. [9]
In his late eighties, St Albans spent a month travelling throughout America on a Greyhound unlimited travel pass. [10]
He died in 1964, aged 89 without children, when the titles devolved upon his second cousin, Charles St Albans who succeeded as the 13th Duke. [11]
Duke of St Albans is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1684 for Charles Beauclerk, 1st Earl of Burford, then 14 years old. King Charles II had accepted that Burford was his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn, an actress, and awarded him the Dukedom just as he had conferred those of Monmouth, Southampton, Grafton, Northumberland and Richmond and Lennox on his other illegitimate sons who married.
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, KG was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwyn.
Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans,, styled Earl of Burford from 1964 until 1988, is an English duke.
Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans was an English aristocrat and politician.
William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans was an English aristocrat and cricketer.
William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, PC DL, styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era.
Charles Victor Albert Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans was a British peer and soldier, known as Earl of Burford before 1898.
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Beatrix Frances Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans, Marchioness of Waterford, GBE, DGStJ, born Lady Beatrix Frances Fitzmaurice, was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, both by birth and through her two marriages.
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The book calls him Buford, rather than Burford or St Albans