Lord Sidney Beauclerk PC (27 February 1703 - 23 November 1744) was a British politician and infamous fortune-hunter. Beauclerk was a younger son of the 1st Duke of St Albans. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford and he entered Parliament in 1733 as MP for Windsor, alongside his brother, Lord Vere Beauclerk. His fortune-hunting eventually gained him the estates of Richard Topham in and around Windsor and Old Windsor in 1737. Wikipedia
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