Charles Sidney Beauclerk

Fr Charles Sidney de Vere Beauclerk SJ (1 January 1855 – 22 November 1934) was a Jesuit priest who attempted to turn the town of Holywell into the "Lourdes of Wales".[1] He was also notable for his connection to the novelist Frederick Rolfe, and for his involvement in the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.

  1. ^ Eric Rowan & Carolyn Stewart, An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales, 1870–1950, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2002. pp.37; 225