William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans was an English aristocrat.
William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans
Portrait of his father and mother, and his siblings Aubrey, Lady Catherine, and Lady Caroline, by Franciszek Smuglewicz.
Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, was a British peer and landowner, as well as a collector of antiquities and works of art.
William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans
…18 December 1766 – 17 July 1825) was an English aristocrat. William was born on 18 December 1766. He was the second son of Lady Catharine Ponsonby and Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, a Whig Member of Parliament for Thetford from 1761 to 1768 and for Aldborough from 1768 to 1774. His elder brother was Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of…
Portrait of Lady Catherine Beauclerk (by Thomas Gainsborough)