The youngest son of the fifth duke of St Albans; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the church but devoted himself to gambling and sports, distinguishing himself as a cricket player.

REFERENCES TO Lord Frederick de Vere Beauclerk:

Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, [1813] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)