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Personal data Topham BEAUCLERK 


Household of Topham BEAUCLERK

He is married to Diana SPENCER.

They got married on March 12, 1768 at Hanover Square, Mayfair, Westminster, Middlesex, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Mary Day BEAUCLERK  1766-1851 
  4. Elizabeth BEAUCLERK  1766-1793 


Notes about Topham BEAUCLERK

Topham Beauclerk (22 December 1739 - 11 March 1780) was a celebrated wit and a friend of Dr Johnson and Horace Walpole.

Topham Beauclerk was born on 22 December 1739, the only son of Lord Sidney Beauclerk and a great-grandson of King Charles II. He was christened on 19 January 1740 in St James's Church, Piccadilly, in Westminster. He attended Trinity College, Oxford.

In 1763 he was in Italy with John Fitzpatrick. In 1774 he lived in Muswell Hill, north London.

On 12 March 1768 he married Diana (1734-1808), former Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte. She was born into the Spencer family as the daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough and the Honourable Elizabeth Trevor. Diana had married in 1757 as her first husband Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke. This marriage, which gave her two sons, was unhappy and her husband was notoriously unfaithful. In February 1768 he petitioned for divorce on grounds of adultery ("criminal conversation"). The petition required an act of parliament, which was passed the next month. Soon thereafter she married Beauclerk.

They had four children together:
Anne Beauclerk (born c. 1764)
Elisabeth Beauclerk (20 August 1766 - 25 March 1793); married George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery.
Mary Day Beauclerk, twin of Elisabeth (20 August 1766 - 23 July 1851)
Charles George Beauclerk (20 January 1774 - 25 December 1846), briefly an MP; on 29 April 1799 married Emily Charlotte "Mimie" Ogilvie (May 1778-22 January 1832), daughter of William Ogilvie and Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster; father of Aubrey Beauclerk (politician)

From 1772-1776 he lived at 3 Adelphi Terrace. Beauclerk died at his house in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury on 11 March 1780. Lady Diana later sold the house to retire in reduced circumstances to Richmond. The house at Great Russell Street, which was partly demolished in 1788, housed a library designed by Robert Adam.

Friendships and anecdotes
Topham Beauclerk entertained Dr Johnson at his home in Old Windsor for a number of weeks. He appears several times in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. As Bennet Langton records: 'His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great, that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death, Johnson said (with a voice faultering with emotion), "Sir, I would walk to the extent of the diameter of the earth to save Beauclerk".' (Boswell 1672).

He was an intimate friend also of Horace Walpole. The artist Joseph Farington records Walpole's description of him:
"Lord Orford mentioned many particulars relative to the late Mr. Topham Beauclerc. He said He was the worst tempered man He ever knew. Lady Di passed a most miserable life with him. Lord O, out of regard to her invited them occasionally to pass a few days at Strawberry Hill. They slept in separate beds. Beauclerc was remarkably filthy in his person which generated vermin. He took Laudanum regularly in vast quantities. He seldom rose before one or two o'clock. His principal delight was in disputing on subjects that occurred, this He did accutely. Before He died He asked pardon of Lady Di, for his ill usage of her. He had one son and two daughters by Lady Di. One married Lord Herbert, the second went abroad with her Brother, Lord Bolingbroke [i.e. George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke].
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topham_Beauclerk

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Topham BEAUCLERK

Charles BEAUCLERK
1670-1726
Diana de VERE
1679-????
Mary NORRIS
1698-1766

Topham BEAUCLERK
1739-1780

1768

Diana SPENCER
1734-1808

Charles George BEAUCLERK
1774-1845
Ann Charlotte BEAUCLERK
1767-1851
Mary Day BEAUCLERK
1766-1851
Elizabeth BEAUCLERK
1766-1793

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Birthday December 22, 1739

  • The temperature on December 22, 1739 was about 7.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1739: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
    • February 23 » At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
    • February 24 » Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
    • September 9 » Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
    • September 18 » The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
    • October 3 » The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.

Christening day January 19, 1740

  • The temperature on January 19, 1740 was about -0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage March 12, 1768

  • The temperature on March 12, 1768 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: droog. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1768: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
    • May 10 » Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
    • June 21 » James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
    • November 5 » Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
    • December 1 » The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
    • December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

Day of death March 11, 1780

  • The temperature on March 11, 1780 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1780: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
    • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
    • June 23 » American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
    • September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
    • November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
    • November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.


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