Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

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

The Duke was styled Lord Osborne Beauclerk from 1874 to 1934.

Biography

Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans; his mother was Grace Bernal-Osborne of Tipperary, Ireland, a descendant of the politician and actor Ralph Bernal.

Lord Osborne (aka Obby Beauclerk) served as a Captain in the 17th Lancers during the Boer War, returning to the United Kingdom in December 1901.^[1] In 1911 and 1913 he set off on a trip to British Columbia, Canada where he was involved in a prospective mining investment; part of his time there was spent camping with partners British travelogue writer Warburton Pike and the American mining engineer Marshall Latham Bond.

At the outbreak of World War I, Captain Beauclerk was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, serving in France.

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.^[2]

In his late-eighties, Obby St Albans spent a month travelling throughout America on a Greyhound unlimited travel pass. His Grace died in 1964, aged 89 without children, when the titles devolved upon his cousin, Charles St Albans who succeeded as the 13th Duke.^[3]

Sources

Home from the Hill: Three Gentleman Adventurers, by Peter Murray
NY Times: Lord Osborne Beauclerk arrives in New York
Auden's Ghost's: Osborne Beauclerk, Stanford University

References

↑ "The War - officers returning home". The Times (36628). London. 3 December 1901. p. 10.
↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
↑ The House of Nell Gwyn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, Donald Adamson (William Kimber, Ldn 1974)

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Ancestry

Ancestors of Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

16. Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans

8. William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans

17. Lady Catherine Ponsonby

4. William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans

18. John Nelthorpe

9. Maria Nelthorpe

19. Mary Cracroft

2. William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans

20. Joseph Gubbins

10. Joseph Gubbins

5. Elizabeth Gubbins

11. Charlotte Bathoe

1. Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

24. Jacob Bernal

12. Ralph Bernal

25. Leah da Silva

6. Ralph Bernal-Osborne

13. Ann White

3. Grace Bernal-Osborne

28. Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet

14. Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet

29. Elizabeth Christmas

7. Catherine Osborne

30. Robert Smith

15. Catherine Smith

31. Margaret Ramsay

Dukes of St Albans

House of Beauclerk
(since 1684)

Charles, 1st Duke (1684–1726)
Charles, 2nd Duke (1726–1751)
George, 3rd Duke (1751–1786)
George, 4th Duke (1786–1787)
Aubrey, 5th Duke (1787–1802)
Aubrey, 6th Duke (1802–1815)
Aubrey, 7th Duke (1815–1816)
William, 8th Duke (1816–1825)
William, 9th Duke (1825–1849)
William, 10th Duke (1849–1898)
Charles, 11th Duke (1898–1934)
Osborne, 12th Duke (1934–1964)
Charles, 13th Duke (1964–1988)
Murray, 14th Duke (since 1988)

Extant dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland*

Cornwall Norfolk Somerset Richmond Grafton Beaufort St Albans Bedford Devonshire Marlborough Rutland Rothesay Hamilton Buccleuch Lennox Queensberry Argyll Atholl Montrose Roxburghe Brandon Manchester Northumberland Leinster Wellington Sutherland Abercorn Westminster Gordon Fife Gloucester Kent Edinburgh York Cambridge

* Listed by precedence, from highest to lowest Dukedoms in italics are held by members of the Royal Family.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Charles Beauclerk	Duke of St Albans 1934–1964	Succeeded by Charles Beauclerk

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