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 SAINT ALBANS. 7 IX. 1825. 0. William Audrey de Vere (Beauci.erk), Duke of Saint Aluans, &c, 1st s. mid h. by second wife, b. 24 March 1801 ; sti/hd Earl or Burfohd, 1810-25 ; ed. at Christ's Coll., Cambridge ; sue. to the parage, as above, 17 July lS'2. r > ; cr, LL.D. of Cambridge, 1828 ; Hearer of the Sceptre with the cross at the Coronation, 8 Sep. 1831, of William IV. He m. firstly (spec, lie.) at her house in Stratton street, St. Geo. Han. sq., 16 June 1827, Harriet, the rich and childless widow of Thomas Courrs, Banker, da. of Matthew Mellon, Lieut. Madras Native Infantry, by ( — ), a member of a theatrical company, at Cork.(k) She, who was b. 1 1 Nov. 1777, probably at Cork,( :l ) and was for many years on the stage, d. s.p. 6 Aug. 1837, of paralysis, at her house in Piccadilly, and was bur. at Kedbourne af.id.l 1 ') Will pr. Feb. 1838. He m. secondly, 20 May 1839, at her father's house in Leicestershire, Elizabeth Catherine, yst. da. of Joseph GUHBiNS, of Kilrush, co. Limerick, and of Stoneham, Hants, Gen. in the army, by his first wife, Charlotte, da. of James BatBOB, of Bath. He d. 20 May 1849, aged 48, at his house 20 Piccadilly, and was bur. at Kedbourne. Will pr. July IS lit. His widow ?«. 10 Nov. 1859, at All Saints', Knightsbridge, as his 2d wife, Lucius Bentiuck (Gary), 10th Viscount Falkland [S.], who d. s.p.s. 12 March 1SS4, in his Slst year. She, who retained the style of Duchess of Saint Albans, d. 2 Nov. 1893, at Marina, St. Leouard's-on-Sea, was cremated at Woking, and was bur, at Kedbourne. X. 1849. 10. William Amelius Aubrey de Vere (Beauclerk), Duke ok Saint Albans [1083/4], Earl of Burfohd [1070], Bason Ueuinuton [1070J and Baiion Vere OF HanWORTH [1750], hereditary Grand Fal- couer, and hereditary Registrar of the court of Chancery, only s. and h. by second wife, b. 15 April 1810, in Piccadilly ; style i Earl of Burford, till he sue. to the peer- age, as above, 20 May 184!) ; was ed. at liton, and Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; Hon. Col. 1st Notts Keg. Rifle Volunteers, 180S ; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard, 180S-74 ; P. C. 1869; 1,. -Lieut. Notts, 1S80. He m. firstly 20 June 1S07, at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, Sybil Mary, sister to Albert Henry George, 4th Earl Ghf.y, 1st da. of Gen. the Hon. Charles Uhky, by Caroline Eliza, da. of Sir Thomas Harvie Far- m'H.ut, 2d. Bart. She, who was 6. 28 Nov. 1S4S, d. 7 Sep. 1871, of puerperal fever, at 2 Cromwell Houses, South Kensington. He m. secondly, 3 Jan. 1874, at Newtown Auner, co. Tipperary, Grace, 2d. da. and coheir of Ralph BSHKAt-OSBOBH*, formerly Hkhnal, by Catherine Isabella, sister and h. of Sir William OsuoJtNE, 10th Bart. [I.], all of Newtown Auner afsd. [Charles Victor Albert Aubrey De Vere Beauclerk, styled Earl OF Burford, 1st s. and h. ap., by first wife, b. 20 March 1S70, in the apartments of of his maternal grandmother, at St. James' Palace, the Queen and the .Prince of Wales, being two of his Sponsors at his baptism ; an officer of the Life Guards], Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted of 5,255 acres in Lincolnshire, and 3,743 ID Notts, Total 8,988 acres, worth 110,055 a year. Principal Residences Redbourne Hall, near Brigg, co. Lincoln, Bestwood Park, Notts, and Newtown Anuer, co. Tipperary. ( a ) See " N. and Q." 7th S., vii, 1S3 and 293. ( b ) There is a good account of her career in the obituaries of the Ann. Keg. and the Gent. Mag. for 1837. Her "Memoirs " (2 vols.), by Mrs. Cornwall Barry, were pub. in 1839. She made her first appearance on the London stage, 31 Jan. 1795, as Lydia Languish, in Sheridan's "Jiivals" and her last, as " Violaute," in 1815, not long after she had m., 8 Jan. 1815, as his second wife, Thomas Coutts, the Banker, who d. seven years later, aged 87, leaving her (by will pr. 24 March 1S22, at £600,000), his universal legatee. This fortune she for the most part left to Mr. Coutts's descendants by his first wife, his grand-daughter, Angela, afterwards suo jure Baroness Burdefct-Coutts (yet. da, of Sir Franois Burdett, Bart.) obtaining the bulk thoreof. She left, however, £10,000 a year to her second husband but the total of her residue amounted, "it is confidently stated to £1,800,000," which is accounted for by her expenditure having been about £40,000 a year less than her income. Sho, whose beauty was much admired, has been painted by Komncy.