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Lord Sidney Beauclerk PC (27 February 1703 – 23 November 1744) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1744. He acquired a reputation as a fortune hunter. Early life.
Nov 11, 2022 · Lord Sidney Beauclerk was the fifth son of the 1st Duke of St Albans and his wife, the former Lady Diana de Vere, daughter and heiress of Aubrey de Vere, 20th and last Earl of Oxford; and he was a grandson of King Charles II and his mistress, Nell Gwynne.
Lord Sidney Beauclerk was regarded by his contemporaries as a fortune hunter; as early as 1727 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu describes him 2 as ‘Nell Gwyn in person, with the sex altered’, paying court to the Duchess of Cleveland, aged 63: Her children banished, age forgot. Lord Sidney is her care; And, what is much a happier lot,
The LORD AUBREY BEAUCLERK was the youngest son of CHARLES, DUKE OF ST ALBANS by DIANA, daughter of AUBREY DE VERE EARL OF OXFORD. He went early to sea and was made a Commander in 1731.
Lord Sidney Beauclerk was the fifth son of of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife Lady Diana de Vere and was born 27 February 1702/03. Lord Sidney was a notorious fortune-hunter [1]
When Lord Sidney Beauclerk was born on 27 February 1703, in Ardglass, County Down, Ireland, his father, Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke of St Albans, KG, was 32 and his mother, Lady Diana de Vere, was 24. He married Mary Norris on 9 November 1736.
Within a couple of years of her trip, back in Venice, she portrayed Lord Sidney Beauclerk (Lot 76, the present lot), grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, fresh from Oxford, now on his Grand Tour.
