Ralph Beauclerk


Ralph Charles Beauclerk , :es:marquesado de Valero Urría|6th Marquis de Valero de Urría, was in remainder to the dukedom of Saint Albans.
Both of Beauclerk's parents were of aristocratic descent. His father was engineer William Topham Sidney Beauclerk, whose great-grandfather was Topham Beauclerk, who was in turn a grandson of the 1st Duke of St Albans. His mother was Lola, Countess de Peñalver, only surviving child of Enrique, 6th Marquis de Arcos.
Educated at Downside School and then in France, Captain Beauclerk served as a military intelligence officer during World War II.
After distinguished military service, he became a merchant banker overseas including in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1989, he inherited one of his Spanish :es:Marquesado de Arcos|family's marquessates, that of Valero de Urría; a relation of his is Esther Koplowitz, now 8th Marquesa de Casa Peñalver.

Personal life

On 24 August 1957 at Saigon, Vietnam, he married Noirine Mary Bowen, daughter of James Bowen, of Bowen's Cross, County Cork; they had two children:
The 6th Marquis de Valero de Urría was awarded :