Biography of William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 1801-1849

Paternal Family Tree: Stewart

Maternal Family Tree: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans 1822

On 04 Mar 1799 [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans (age 32) and [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans were married. He the son of Aubrey Beauclerk 5th Duke St Albans (age 58) and Catherine Ponsonby Duchess St Albans. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 24 Mar 1801 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans was born to William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans (age 34) and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Around 1816 Thomas Coutts (age 80) and [his future wife] Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans (age 38) were married. The difference in their ages was 42 years.

On 19 Feb 1816 Louisa Grace Manners Duchess St Albans (age 39) died. The same day her son Aubrey Beauclerk 7th Duke St Albans died. His uncle [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans (age 49) succeeded 8th Duke St Albans, 8th Earl Burford, 8th Baron Heddington. [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans by marriage Duchess St Albans. Both at the home of her sister Laura Manners Countess Stair and her husband John Dalrymple 7th Earl of Stair (age 31) at Portman Square Marylebone.

On 17 Jan 1822 [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans died.

On 17 Jul 1825 [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans (age 58) died. His son William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 24) succeeded 9th Duke St Albans, 9th Earl Burford, 9th Baron Heddington.

On 16 Jun 1827 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 26) and Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans (age 49) were married. She by marriage Duchess St Albans. The difference in their ages was 23 years; she, unusually, being older than him. He the son of William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 06 Aug 1837 [his wife] Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans (age 59) died. Her step-grand-daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 23) inherited the Coutts fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £170,000,000 in 2021).

On 29 May 1839 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 38) and Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans (age 21) were married at Church of St Mary the Virgin Harby, Leicestershire. She by marriage Duchess St Albans. William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 38) donated a new clock, a bible, a prayer book, and £30 with the rector to be invested for the poor. He the son of William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 15 Apr 1840 [his son] William Amelius Aubrey Beauclerk 10th Duke St Albans was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 39) and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans (age 22).

On 10 Dec 1842 [his daughter] Diana Beauclerk was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 41) and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans (age 24).

Adeline Horsey Recollections. After mamma's death I kept house for papa at 8 Upper Grosvenor Street. My brothers were rarely at home. William (age 17) was educated at Eton [Map], and when he was sixteen years old the Duke of Wellington (age 73) gave him a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Later he went through the Crimean War, and he retired from the Army in 1883, on account of ill-health, with the rank of Lieutenant-General.

Algernon (age 16) entered the Navy in 1840 as a midshipman, and the same year took part in the operations on the coast of Syria. After the battle of Acre he received the Turkish medal and clasps: his promotion was rapid, and as Admiral, his flagship, the Shah, engaged the Huascar, which he forced to surrender to the Peruvian authorities.

Now that I was so much alone I occasionally found time hang heavy on my hands, and I welcomed any excitement as a break in the monotony, for of course our period of mourning prevented us entertaining or accepting invitations. One day my maid told me about a fortune-teller who had a wonderful gift for predicting the future. I was very much interested, and made up my mind to consult the oracle. My maid attempted to dissuade me, saying that the woman lived in Bridge Street, Westminster, which was not at all a nice neighbourhood. I have always had my own way and, disguised in a borrowed cloak, bonnet and thick veil, and accompanied by my protesting servant, I started off to Bridge Street late one November afternoon.

It was dusk when we reached Westminster and found Bridge Street, badly lighted and evil-smelling. We knocked at the door, stated whom we wished to see, and we were ushered through a dark passage into a dirty room reeking of tobacco.

The fortune-teller was a wrinkled old woman who was smoking a short clay pipe with evident enjoyment. When I told her what I had come for, she produced a greasy pack of cards, and after I had "crossed her pahn" she commenced to tell my future.

"Ah!" said she at last, and she looked curiously, "my pretty young lady, fate holds a great deal in store for you. You will not marry for several years, but when you do it will be to a widower - a man in a high position. You will suffer much unkindness before you experience real happiness, you will obtain much and lose much, you will marry again after your husband's death, and you will live to a great age".

I was quite impressed by my "fortune", but I was a little disappointed, for like most girls I had my day-dreams of a young husband, and the prospect of a widower was thus rather depressing.

Strangely enough, the prediction came true, for Lord Cardigan (age 45) was a widower, and nearly all the men who proposed to me were widowers ! I was asked in marriage by Lord Sherborne (age 38), a widower with ten children; by the Duke of Leeds (age 40), who was a widower with eleven children, and by Christopher Maunsell Talbot (age 39), once Father of the House of Commons, also a widower with four children. Prince Soltykoff, the Duke of St. Albans (age 41), Harry Howard, and Disraeli (age 38) were other widowers who proposed to me, so I suppose I must have had some unaccountable fascination for bereaved husbands.

In 1849 [his daughter] Charlotte Beauclerk was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 47) and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans (age 31).

On 27 May 1849 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans (age 48) died. His son [his son] William Amelius Aubrey Beauclerk 10th Duke St Albans (age 9) succeeded 10th Duke St Albans, 10th Earl Burford, 10th Baron Heddington.

On 02 Dec 1893 [his former wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans (age 75) died in St Leonards On Sea.

William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 1801-1849 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland 1630-1685

Royal Ancestors of William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 1801-1849

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 3 Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Son of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 5 Grand Son of Henry IV King France

Ancestors of William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 1801-1849

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland Son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke St Albans Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Nell Gwyn

Great x 1 Grandfather: Vere Beauclerk 1st Baron de Vere Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert de Vere 19th Earl of Oxford 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Aubrey de Vere 20th Earl of Oxford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Van Hemmema Countess of Oxford

Great x 2 Grandmother: Diana Vere Duchess St Albans 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Kirke

Great x 3 Grandmother: Diana Kirke Countess of Oxford

GrandFather: Aubrey Beauclerk 5th Duke St Albans Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Chambers

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Chambers Baroness Spencer 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Berkeley 1st Earl Berkeley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Berkeley 2nd Earl Berkeley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Berkeley 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Noel Countess Berkeley

Great x 4 Grandmother: Hester Wotton Viscountess Campden

Father: William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ponsonby

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Ponsonby 1st Viscount Duncannon 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Folliot 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Randle Moore

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Moore

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Archbishop James Margetson

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Margetson

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Bonnett

Great x 2 Grandmother: Sarah Margetson 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Caulfeild 1st Viscount Charlemont 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Moore Viscountess Charlemont

GrandMother: Catherine Ponsonby Duchess St Albans 12 x Great Grand Daughter of Henry IV King England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of Henry IV King England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Russell 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Daughter of Henry IV King England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Rachel Wriothesley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of Henry IV King England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough 11 x Great Grand Daughter of Henry IV King England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Hoskins

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hoskins of Oxted

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Hoskyns Duchess Devonshire

William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 3 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland

GrandFather: John Nelthorpe of Little Grimsby Hall in Lincolnshire

Mother: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans