and of tithes, achieved in 1836 by way of a payoff and negligible payments system (commutation for a sum and apportionment of rentchange). He believed in a small, fixed duty (trade tariff) on corn, sought Anglican Church reform and an end to taxes on knowledge. Beauclerk was the only person, according to a letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, to support Shelley's son Percy Florence Shelley's bid to become MP. He was with two others appointed by the Irish Assize judges as High Sheriff of County Down for 1839, 1852, and 1853. Ancestry See also Corn Laws Reform Act 1832 Tithe Commutation Act 1836 Notes and references External links UK Parliamentary Archives, Letters from Major AW Beauclerk MP 1801 births 1854 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 Aubrey