Sidney Beauclerk (1703 - 1744)

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Lord Sidney Beauclerk was the fifth son of of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife Lady Diana de Vere and was born 27 February 1702/03. Lord Sidney was a notorious fortune-hunter^[1]

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.^[2] She may have been born 22 March 1698 at Speke.

They had one son;

1. Topham Beauclerk (1739-1780)

Sidney died 23 November 1744,^[1] and Mary died 20 November 1766.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Lea, R.S. 'Beauclerk, Lord Sidney (1703-44).' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970. Digitised by The History of Parliament website ( http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org : viewed 22 May 2016).
2. ↑ Cruickshanks, Evelyn & Richard Harrison. 'Norris, Thomas (1653-1700), of Speke Hall, Lancs.' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks. Digitised at The History of Parliament website ( http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org : viewed 22 May 2016).

Wikipedia - Lord Sidney Beauclerk.

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p1165.htm#c11647.1
• England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NP93-NW5 : 19 September 2020), Sidney Beaucleark, 1703.
• England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCCM-J47 : 14 October 2019), Sidney Beaucleark, 1703.
• British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZW-B26Z : 17 April 2019), Sidney Beauclerk, Lord, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1 Nov 1744, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .
• Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL75-GCHT : 30 July 2020), Sydney Beauclerk, ; Burial, Garston, Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, Saint Michael's Church; citing record ID 177260433, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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