Lord Aubrey Beauclerk
Lord Aubrey Beauclerk | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1710 |
| Died | 22 March 1741 |
| Allegiance |  Post captain |
| Commands held | HMS Ludlow Castle HMS Garland HMS Dolphin HMS Weymouth HMS Prince Frederick |
| Battles/wars | |
| Relations | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans (father) |
Lord Aubrey Beauclerk (c. 1710 – 22 March 1741) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession and was killed at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias.
Lord Aubrey was born circa 1710, the eighth son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans by his wife Diana. After some previous service he was made post-captain on 1 April 1731, and appointed to HMS Ludlow Castle, which ship he commanded on the Leeward Islands station for about eighteen months. Through the years 1734-5 he commanded HMS Garland in the Mediterranean, and in 1737-9 HMS Dolphin on the same station. He returned home in January 1740, and was almost immediately appointed to the 60-gun HMS Weymouth, from which, in the course of the summer, he was transferred to the 70-gun HMS Prince Frederick, one of the fleet which sailed for the West Indies with Sir Chaloner Ogle on 26 October 1740.
War of the Austrian Succession
On the afternoon of one of the first days in January 1741, as the fleet was off the west end of
There, in the attack on the Boca Chica during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, Lord Aubrey was killed on 22 March 1741. A handsome monument to his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey, designed by Peter Scheemakers.[1] A pension of £200 per annum was conferred on his widow, which she enjoyed until her death on 30 October 1755.[DNB 1][DNB 2][DNB 3][2]
References
- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Ruper Gunnis
- ^ John Knox Laughton (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 34.
DNB references
These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.
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