His Grace
The Duke of St Albans
FCA
The Duke by Allan Warren
Member of the House of Lords
In office
8 October 1988 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byCharles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans
Personal details
Born (1939-01-19) 19 January 1939
Spouses
Rosemary Scoones
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(m. 1963; div. 1974)​
    Cynthia Howard
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    (m. 1974; div. 2001)​
      Gillian Northam
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      (m. 2002)​
      ChildrenLady 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, FCA (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 E. Callis. They were divorced in 1974, having had two children:

      In 1975, Rosemary Beauclerk remarried to Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth, 9th Marquess of Olías.[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, D.S.O., and former wife of the late Sir Anthony Robin Hooper, 2nd Baronet.[5] They were divorced in 2001, without issue.[6][7]

      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.[8]

      Arms

      Coat of arms of Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans
      Coronet
      A Duke's coronet
      Crest
      On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion statant guardant Or crowned with a ducal coronet per pale Argent and of the First and gorged with a Collar of the Last thereon three Roses also Argent barbed and seeded Proper
      Escutcheon
      Grand quarterly, 1st and 4th grand quarters: the Royal Arms of Charles II, viz quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the whole debruised by a Baton sinister Gules charged with three Roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper (Beauclerk); 2nd and 3rd grand quarters: quarterly Gules and Or in the first quarter a Mullet Argent (De Vere)
      Supporters
      Dexter: an Antelope Argent armed and unguled Or; Sinister: a Greyhound Argent, each gorged with a Collar as in the Crest
      Motto
      Auspicium Melioris Aevi (A pledge of better times)

      References

      1. 1 2 "Murray-de-Vere-Beauclerk-ST-ALBANS", Debrett's People of Today, online edition, Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
      2. ↑ Who's Who (2003 edition), London p. 1899
      3. ↑ thepeerage.com
      4. ↑ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
      5. ↑ Crooks, John & Green, Alison, editors, Debrett's People of Today 2001, Fourteenth Annual Edition, Debrett's Peerage Ltd., London, page 1720.
      6. ↑ The Times via WorldRoots Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
      7. ↑ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
      8. ↑ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
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