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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 .
402:, 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:
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Lord Orford mentioned many particulars relative to the late Mr. Topham
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Bibliotheca
Beauclerkiana. A catalogue of the ... library of the late Honourable Topham Beauclerk, F.R.S., deceased; comprehending an excellent choice of books, to the number of upwards of thirty thousand volumes ... which will be sold by auction ... by Mr. Paterson ... April 9, 1781, and the
500:, he was a grandfather to four illegitimate boys. From her marriage to Count von Walworth, he was a grandfather to two boys, only one who survived to adulthood, and four girls, the youngest of whom was Countess Emilie (or Amelia) von Walworth, from whom descended the princes of
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