Armes Beaumont

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Edward Armes Beaumont (15 December 1842 – 17 July 1913), vocalist active in Australia.

Beaumont was born in St Faith's, Norfolk, England. He and his family moved to Melbourne in 1848 and later he sang in the choir at the Wesleyan Chapel in Brunswick St.

In 1870 he joined William Lyster's opera company and increased his concert singing, notably with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society.

[edit] Reference

• Kenneth Hince, 'Beaumont, Edward Armes (1842 - 1913)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, MUP, 1969, pp 126-127