Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans


Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans, styled Earl of Burford from 1964 to 1988, is an English duke. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1988 to 1999.

Family

The only child 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.
Since 1989 he has served as Governor-General of the Royal Stuart Society, a monarchist organisation with Jacobite ties, and is also a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Drapers' Company.

Marriages and issue

Murray Beauclerk married three times. On 31 January 1963 he married Rosemary Frances Scoones, a daughter of Francis Harold Scoones of West Ham and his wife, Rose Frances Eleanor Callis. They were divorced in 1974, having had two children:
In 1975, Rosemary Beauclerk remarried to Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth.
On 29 August 1974, shortly after his first divorce, Beauclerk married Cynthia Theresa Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel William James Holdsworth Howard and former wife of the late Sir Anthony Robin Hooper, 2nd Baronet. They were divorced in 2001, without issue.
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.