Aubrey Beauclerk (politician)

Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk (20 February 1801 – 1 February 1854) was a British politician.

Life

Beauclerk was the son of Charles George Beauclerk and Emily Charlotte Ogilvie. A former army major, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey from 1832 to 1837. He was a political radical, active in the reform movement.^[1] He lived at Ardglass Castle in County Down, Ireland, and St. Leonard Lodge at Horsham, West Sussex, England.

In 13 February 1834, Beauclerk married Ida Goring. Together they had four children. In 7 December 1841 he married Rose Matilda Robinson and they had two children.

Beauclerk has been romantically involved with the nineteenth-century writer Mary Shelley.^[2]

Political career

As an MP Beauclerk supported the radical causes of the day, including the abolition of slavery and the discontinuation of tithes. He believed in a small, fixed duty on corn, and sought Church reform and an end to taxes on knowledge. Beauclerk was the only person, according to a letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, to support Mary Shelley's son Percy Florence Shelley's bid to become a member of parliament.^[3]

Ancestry

Family of Aubrey Beauclerk (politician)

16. Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans

8. Lord Sidney Beauclerk

17. Lady Diana de Vere

4. Topham Beauclerk

18. Thomas Norris

9. Mary Norris

19. Magdalen Aston

2. Charles George Beauclerk

20. Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

10. Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough

21. Lady Anne Churchill

5. Lady Diana Spencer

22. Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor

11. The Hon. Elizabeth Trevor

23. Elizabeth Burrell

1. Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk

6. William Ogilvie

3. Emily Charlotte Ogilvie

28. Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond

14. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

29. Anne Brudenell

7. Lady Emelia Lennox, Dowager Duchess of Leinster

30. William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan

15. Lady Sarah Cadogan

31. Margaret Cecilia Munter

Notes

^ Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley, London: Cardinal (1989): 133.
^ Seymour, Mary Shelley. London: John Murray (2000): 424-26.
^ The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–44, Ed. Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1995): Appendix III, 601.

References

thepeerage.com. Retrieved on 23 April 2008.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Aubrey Beauclerk

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for East Surrey 1832 – 1837 With: John Ivatt Briscoe to 1835 Richard Alsager from 1835	Succeeded by Henry Kemble Richard Alsager

[1] Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley, London: Cardinal (1989): 133.

[2] Seymour, Mary Shelley. London: John Murray (2000): 424-26.

[3] The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–44, Ed. Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1995): Appendix III, 601.

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