Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (born 19 January 1939), styledEarl of Burford from 1964 until 1988, is an Englishduke. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1988 until 1999.
Murray Beauclerk married three times. On 31 January 1963 he married firstly Rosemary Frances Scoones, a daughter of Francis Harold Scoones of West Ham and his wife Rose Frances Eleanor Callis. They were divorced in 1974, having had two children:
Lady Emma Caroline de Vere Beauclerk (born 22 July 1963), married 1991 David Craig Shaw Smellie
On 29 August 1974, shortly after his first divorce, Beauclerk married secondly Cynthia Theresa Mary (1929–2002), daughter of Lt-Col. William James Holdsworth Howard and former wife of the late Sir Anthony Robin Hooper, 2nd Baronet.[5] They were divorced in 2001, without issue.[6][4]
In 1988, Beauclerk's father died, and he became the 14th Duke of St Albans.
The Duke married his third and current wife, Gillian Anita Northam, on 14 December 2002 in London.[4]
Arms
Coat of arms of Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans
On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion statant guardant Or crowned with a ducal coronet per pale Argent and of the First and gorged with a Collar of the Last thereon three Roses also Argent barbed and seeded Proper
Escutcheon
Grand quarterly, 1st and 4th grand quarters: the Royal Arms of Charles II, viz quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the whole debruised by a Baton sinister Gules charged with three Roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper (Beauclerk); 2nd and 3rd grand quarters: quarterly Gules and Or in the first quarter a Mullet Argent (De Vere)
Supporters
Dexter: an Antelope Argent armed and unguled Or; Sinister: a Greyhound Argent, each gorged with a Collar as in the Crest
Motto
Auspicium Melioris Aevi (A pledge of better times)
