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Lord Sidney Beauclerk (1703–44) (Rosalba Carriera, c.1723) Beauclerk arms. 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.
11 de nov. de 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.
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. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
Biography. 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,
Lord Sidney was a notorious fortune-hunter. Lord Sidney married 9 December 1736, Mary Norris, the daughter and eventual heir of Thomas Norris, MP, of Speke Hall, Lancashire, and his wife Magdalen Aston. She may have been born 22 March 1698 at Speke. They had one son; Topham Beauclerk (1739-1780)
Sidney fue un político británico y un infame cazador de fortunas. Fue educado en Eton y en el Trinity College de Oxford. Ingresó en el Parlamento en 1733 como diputado por Windsor, junto a su hermano, el Señor Vere Beauclerk.
Nació el 08 de mayo de 1670. Hijo ilegítimo del Rey Carlos II de Inglaterra y de Nell Gwynne. El 21 de diciembre de 1676, fue reconocido como hijo bastardo del Rey, y él y sus descendientes varones recibieron las dignidades de Barón de Heddington, Conde de Oxford, y Conde de Burford.
