William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, PC DL (15 April 1840 – 10 May 1898), styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era.
The Duke served in William Gladstone's government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1868 and 1874.
St Albans succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1849, aged nine. He later took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1868 to 1874 in William Ewart Gladstone's first administration. In 1869 he was sworn of the Privy Council, but never returned to active political office, although he accepted appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire serving between 1880 and 1898.
From a 1906 Book
Tenth Duke of St. Albans. Was born in 1840, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He purchased his first yacht, the Pilgrim(120-ton schooner), in 1863, and in the same year was elected a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He voyaged to the Mediterranean in that and the following seasons, when he bought the s.y. Xantha from the late Lord Alfred Paget. He next purchased the yawl Dream, and then the Ceres, 301 tons.
Club: Royal Yacht Squadron.
Residence: Redbourne, Kirton-in-Lindsay, Lincolnshire.
Vessels: Pilgrim; Xantha; Dream; Ceres