(1774 - 1846) of South Lodge, St Leonards, Sx., o. s. of Hon. Topham Beauclerk; suc. fa. 1780; educ. Eton and Ch.Ch. Oxf. 1790; m. 1799 Emily Ogilvie; MP 1796 - 8.
1793 - 4 Naples (Aug.[?] 1793 - Mar. 1794), Rome ( - May), Florence (May), Venice (27 May)
Like his father, Charles Beauclerk travelled to Naples for his health, arriving in the summer of 1793. He took a letter from his mother (dated Richmond, 20 July 1793) to William Hamilton in Naples and on 20 January 1794 his mother wrote thanking the Hamiltons for their kindness to her son and asking that he should write to her concerning his health.1 Lady Webster saw him in Naples in March 1794, describing him as Lord Holland's 'bosom friend', but 'silent and sulky and when he opens it is to tease his friend;' but she was also told that he was 'remarkably sensible, good-humoured, and pleasing to those that know him'.2 From Naples Beauclerk went to Rome, where he joined the Bessboroughs, Lord Grandison, Lord Holland and Lady Webster on an expedition to Tivoli, which ended abruptly when Bessborough, 'from a fit of jealousy about Mr Beauclerk', made them all return to Rome.3 Beauclerk left Rome in May 17944 with Lord Holland, intending to go to Switzerland; he arrived in Venice on 27 May ('Gio.Beauckelsh'),5 having passed through Florence, see Henry, 3rd Baron Holland. In July 1794 it was reported (presumably in retrospect) that he had been in Rome and was in Naples.6
1. Morrison, 1:179, 187 (nos.223, 233). 2. Holland Jnl., 1:121. 3. Ibid., 124. 4. Granville Letters, 1:89. 5. ASV IS770. 6. The Oracle, 21 Jul. 1794.