page_title: Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Aubrey Beauclerk, later 5th Duke of St. Albans, and his family including his eldest son Aubrey (1765-1815), later 6th Duke of St. Albans, who joined his parents in Rome in May 1778, and their two eldest daughters, Catherine (1768-1803) and Caroline (1775-1838).
context_page_description: Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans was an English aristocrat and politician.
context_section_description: Beauclerk was born on 21 August 1765.  He was the eldest son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans by his wife Lady Catherine Ponsonby.  Among his sibling were Lord William Beauclerk, Lord Amelius Beauclerk (First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King William IV), Lady Catherine Beauclerk (who married Rev. James Burgess, Vicar of Hanworth), and Lady Caroline Beauclerk (who married Hon. Charles Lawrence Dundas, fourth son of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas).
  His father was the eldest surviving son of Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (third son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans) and Mary Chambers (eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Chambers of Hanworth Park, Middlesex). In 1781, Beauclerk's father inherited Hanworth, and after becoming the 5th Duke in 1787 following the death of his unmarried cousin George. The 5th Duke sold Hanworth shortly after 1802 to James Ramsey Cuthbert.
  His maternal grandparents were William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (who served in both the Irish and the British House of Commons, and held office as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, a Privy Counsellor, and Chief Secretary for Ireland) and Lady Caroline Cavendish (eldest daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire).
caption: The 5th Duke of St Albans and his wife, Lady Catherine, son Aubrey and daughters Catherine and Caroline, by Franciszek Smuglevicz, 1778.
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