Beauclerk

Beauclerk, Topham, son of Lord Sydney Beauclerk, was born in 1739, succeeding in 1744 to the estates that his father had inherited from Richard Topham. In 1768 he married Lady Diana Spencer, eldest daughter of the second Duke of Marlborough, two days after her divorce from Lord St. John and Bolingbroke. He died in 1780, leaving a library of 30,000 volumes, a catalogue of which is in the British Museum. He was a particular friend of Dr. Johnson, and is portrayed in Boswell's pages.