Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford

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Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, KG, PC, (1627 – 12 March 1703) was the son of the Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford and his wife Beatrix van Hemmend.

On 12 April 1647, he married Hon. Anne Bayning, a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Bayning. Anne died in 1659 and Aubrey married Diana Kirke and they had one child, Lady Diana de Vere, who married King Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of St Albans.

He was the last Vere Earl of Oxford, one of the longest-lived peerages. The first Vere earl had received his title from the Empress Matilda in 1141.

Legal offices
Preceded by Vacant (The Protectorate)	Justice in Eyre south of the Trent 1660–1673	Succeeded by The Duke of Monmouth
Honorary titles
English Interregnum	Lord Lieutenant of Essex jointly with The Duke of Albemarle 1675–1687 1660–1687	Succeeded by The Lord Petre
Preceded by The Lord Petre	Lord Lieutenant of Essex 1688–1703	Succeeded by The Lord Guilford
Peerage of England
Preceded by Robert de Vere	Earl of Oxford 1632–1703	Dormant