Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans

Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans, (born 19 January 1939), styled Earl of Burford from 1964 until 1988, is an English duke.

Beauclerk attended Tonbridge School in Kent, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1962.

On 31 January 1963 he married firstly Rosemary Frances Scoones, a daughter of Francis Harold Scoones of West Ham and his wife Rose Frances E. Callis.

They were divorced in 1974, having had two children:

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, D.S.O., and former wife of the late Sir Anthony Robin Hooper, 2nd Baronet.

In 1975, Rosemary Beauclerk remarried to Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth, 9th Marquess of Olías.

He was a member of the House of Lords from 1988 until 1999.

In 1988, Beauclerk's father died, and he became the 14th Duke of St. Albans.

Since 1989, he has served as Governor-General of the Royal Stuart Society, a monarchist organization with Jacobite ties, and is also a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Drapers' Company.

Murray Beauclerk married three times.

They were divorced in 2001, without issue.

The Duke married his third and current wife, Gillian Anita Northam, on 14 December 2002 in London.

The only child (by his first wife) and eldest son of Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans, the 14th Duke descends from King Charles II and Nell Gwyn by their illegitimate son, Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans.

He is also the senior representative of the De Vere family.