Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk GCB GCH FRS (23 May 1771 – 10 December 1846) was a Royal Navy officer.

[1] He was entered on the books of the cutter Jackal in June 1782,[2] and in 1783 was appointed to Salisbury, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral John Campbell on the Newfoundland Station.

Afterward, he served in the West Indies under Commodore Gardner and returned to England in 1789 as acting Lieutenant of Europa.

This was one of the squadrons, under Commodore Taylor, which convoyed the homeward trade in the following autumn, when the French recaptured the Censeur off Cape St Vincent on 7 October 1796.

In the south of Cape Clear, Ireland, during the action on 13 June 1796, he captured the Proserpine, a ship with 42 guns and 348 men.

[3] Over the next ten years, he commanded HM Ships Majestic, Saturn, and Royal Oak (all 74 guns) in the English Channel.