Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

Arms of the Dukes of St Albans

Osborne de Vere Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans (16 October 1874 – 2 March 1964) was a British peer and Army officer.

The Duke was styled Lord Osborne Beauclerk from 1874 to 1934.

Biography

Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans; his mother was Grace Bernal-Osborne of Tipperary, Ireland, a descendant of the politician and actor Ralph Bernal.

Lord Osborne (aka Obby Beauclerk) served as a Captain in the 17th Lancers during the Boer War, returning to the United Kingdom in December 1901.^[1] In 1911 and 1913 he set off on a trip to British Columbia, Canada where he was involved in a prospective mining investment; part of his time there was spent camping with partners British travelogue writer Warburton Pike and the American mining engineer Marshall Latham Bond.

At the outbreak of World War I, Captain Beauclerk was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, serving in France.

On 19 August 1918, he married Beatrix Beresford, Dowager Marchioness of Waterford, GBE, DStJ, and daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. He succeeded his half-brother in the family titles in 1934.^[2]

In his late-eighties, Obby St Albans spent a month traveling throughout America on a Greyhound unlimited travel pass. His Grace died in 1964, aged 89 without children, when the titles devolved upon his cousin, Charles St Albans who succeeded as the 13th Duke.^[3]

See also

• Duke of St Albans
• Osborne baronets

Sources

• Home from the Hill: Three Gentleman Adventurers, by Peter Murray
• NY Times: Lord Osborne Beauclerk arrives in New York
• Auden's Ghost's: Osborne Beauclerk, Stanford University

References

External links

• Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans
• Beauclerk pedigree

Ancestry

Extant dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland* Cornwall Norfolk Somerset Richmond Grafton Beaufort St Albans Bedford Devonshire Marlborough Rutland Rothesay Hamilton Buccleuch Lennox Queensberry Argyll Atholl Montrose Roxburghe Brandon Manchester Northumberland Leinster Wellington Sutherland Abercorn Westminster Gordon Fife Gloucester Kent Edinburgh York Cambridge * Listed by precedence, from highest to lowest Dukedoms in italics are held by members of the Royal Family.