Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk, Earl of Burford (born 22 February 1965), is a British aristocrat who is heir to the title Duke of St Albans.
Beauclerk first came to public attention when he attempted to interfere with a debate in Parliament, declaring a bill which proposed to exclude hereditary peers from automatic voting rights in the House of Lords to be treasonable.
He is a writer and exponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.
He prefers not to use his title, believing it to be worthless since most hereditary peers were removed from political office by the House of Lords Act 1999.