Lady Diana Beauclerk [née Spencer]

(1734-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808 DNB: Beauclerk [née Spencer; other married name St John], Lady Diana (1734–1808), artist LBT ID: DiBeauc1808 VIAF ID: 71666235 LOC ID: nr92026927	B/BAP: 1734-03-24 DIED: 1808-08-01
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The eldest daughter of Charles Spencer, third duke of Marlborough; an artist and lady of the bedchamber to Queen Charlotte (1762-68), she was married in 1757 to Frederick St John, second Viscount Bolingbroke, and following an adulterous relationship, in 1768 to Topham Beauclerk.
REFERENCES TO Lady Diana Beauclerk [née Spencer]: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Taste for the Gothic Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 9 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) VII. Informers and Defamers Found 1: ¶ 16