Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

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His Grace
The Duke of St Albans
Born
Lord Osborne de Vere Beauclerk

(1874-10-16)16 October 1874
Died2 March 1964(1964-03-02) (aged 89)
Spouse
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(m. 1918; died 1953)​
Parent(s)William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
Grace Bernal-Osborne
RelativesCharles 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

styled
Lord Osborne Beauclerk from 1874 to 1934.

Early life

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]

Career

Lord Osborne (known as Obby) was commissioned as a

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

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]

Personal life

On 19 August 1918, he married

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]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-920663-30-1
    . The book calls him Buford, rather than Burford or St Albans
  2. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1
    .
  3. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1902
  4. ^ "The War - officers returning home". The Times. No. 36628. London. 3 December 1901. p. 10.
  5. ^ "No. 27476". The London Gazette. 23 September 1902. p. 6078.
  6. ^ "No. 27505". The London Gazette. 19 December 1902. p. 8761.
  7. ^ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (4 May 1914). "Lord Osborne Beauclerk arrives in New York". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  8. ISBN 978-0-920663-30-1
    . Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  9. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
  10. ^ Auden's Ghost's: Osborne Beauclerk, Stanford University
  11. ^ The House of Nell Gwyn: Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, Donald Adamson (William Kimber, Ldn 1974)

External links

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