Lord William Beauclerk

Lord William Beauclerk (22 May 1698 – 1733) was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1724 to 1733.

Beauclerk was the second son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife Lady Diana de Vere, daughter of Aubrey de Vere, 20th and last Earl of Oxford.

He was a lieutenant in the 2nd Foot in 1716 and a captain in the Royal Horse Guards in 1721.

[1][2] Beauclerk was returned as Member of Parliament for Chichester at a by-election on 20 January 1724 with the support of his cousin Charles Lennox.

His brothers Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, Vere, Henry, Sidney and George were also Members of Parliament.