Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

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Osbourne de Vere Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans (October 16, 1874 – March 2, 1964) was the son of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans.

Osborne de Vere Beauclerk served as a Captain during the Boer War. In 1913 he spent an extended period of time in British Columbia, Canada where he was involved in mining investment. Part of his time there was spent camping with British travelogue writer Warburton Pike and the American mining engineer Marshall Bond. During World War I he served as Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshall Douglas Haig. During his late eighties he spent a month traveling in the United States on a Greyhound unlimited travel pass.

On 19 August 1918, He married Beatrix Beresford, Dowager Marchioness of Waterford and daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. He died in 1964, aged 89 and childless, and his titles passed to his cousin, Charles Beauclerk.

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