Several members of the family of Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans are buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey. Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans He was born in London on 8th May 1670, ...

Born Nicholas Breakspear around 1100 in Bedmond, Hertfordshire, he came from a poor background, initially rejected by the monastery at St Albans due to his lack of education. Determined to pursue ...

Educated at Cambridge he later became archdeacon of St Albans, a prebendary at St Paul's cathedral and at Gloucester cathedral, Bishop of St Davids and from 1802 Bishop of St Asaph. In 1774 he married ...