Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk (born 22 February 1965), also styled Earl of Burford by courtesy, is a British aristocrat and heir to the peerage title of Duke of St Albans.
Beauclerk first came to public attention when he attempted to interfere with a debate in the House of Lords, declaring a Bill which would exclude hereditary peers from the House to be treasonable.
A writer and exponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, after the House of Lords Act 1999, he is not known by his courtesy title.[1]