Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk

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Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk (20 February 1801 – 1 February 1854) was the son of Charles George Beauclerk and Emily Charlotte Ogilvie. A former army major, he was M.P. for East Surrey from 1832 to 1837 and was a political radical, active in the reform movement.^[1] He married Ida Goring on 13 February 1834. Together the couple had four children. On 7 December 1841 he married Rose Matilda Robinson. They had two children. Beauclerk may have had a relationship with the nineteenth-century writer Mary Shelley and may have disappointed her in marrying these two other women.^[2] He was known to have lived at Ardglass Castle in County Down, Ireland, and St. Leonard Lodge at Horsham, West Sussex, England

As an M.P., 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 become a member of parliament.^[3]

Children of Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk and Rose Matilda Robinson

Louisa Katherine Beauclerk d. 1929
Isabella Julia Beauclerk d. 13 March 1930

Child of Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk

Reverend Charles Beauclerk b. c 1823, d. 27 January 1880

Children of Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk and Ida Goring

Ida Beauclerk b. 29 January 1835, d. 1844
Diana Arabella Beauclerk b. 1836, d. 26 May 1855
Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk+ b. 5 Oct 1837, d. 9 July 1919
Augusta Beauclerk b. 1838

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^ 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.