William Comyns Beaumont
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William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont, (1873-1956) was a British eccentric with several unusual beliefs, many of which were later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works. Beaumont was a staff writer for the Daily Mail.
Among Beaumont's propositions were:
- catastrophic climate changes were the results of the action of asteroids on the earth
- The Egyptian dynasties up to the 13th century B.C. ruled in South Wales
- Jerusalem was originally located in Edinburgh
- The works of Shakespeare were written by Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I
- There is a Zionist plot to undermine the British Empire
- Part of this plot was disinformation disseminated by means of the Bible, which concealed the fact that the Holy Lands were in Britain, not in Palestine.
- The British Isles were Atlantis.
- Jesus was born in Glastonbury, and his life played out in Somerset.
[edit] Works
- The Riddle of the Earth, Chapman & Hall, London, 1925
- The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts, Rider & Co., London, 1932
- The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain, Rider & Co., London, 1946
- Britain the Key to World History, Rider & Co., London, 1947
- A Rebel in Fleet Street, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1948 (his autobiography)
- The Private Life of the Virgin Queen
- After Atlantis: the Greatest Story Never Told (unpublished)
