Michael Beaumont

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Michael Wentworth Beaumont TD, DL, JP (8 February 1903 – 19 December 1958) was a British soldier and politician.

The son of Hubert George Beaumont and Elisa Mercedes Grace, and grandson of the 1st Baron Allendale was educated in Eton College, Berkshire and Oundle School, Northamptonshire. Beaumont was further educated in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire and served in the Coldstream Guards reaching the rank of Lieutenant. In the service of the 90th Field Brigade, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry, Royal Artillery, he became Major and received the Territorial Decoration.

From 1927 to 1947, he was Justice of Peace for Buckinghamshire and Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1929 to 1938. In 1931 and 1932, Beaumont was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1938 and was Master of Foxhounds of Bicester and Warden Hill between 1945 and 1947, and of Kildare between 1953 and 1959.

Beaumont has married twice, firstly Faith Pease, daughter of the 1st Baron Gainford on 29 February 1924 and secondly Doreen Christian Davis-Goff, daughter of Sir Herbert Davis-Goff, 2nd Baronet on 30 December 1935. He had one son, Timothy Beaumont, by his first wife.