Hubert George Beaumont (6 April 1864 – 14 August 1922),[1] styled The Honourable from 1906, was a British politician.
He was third the son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale and his wife Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh, daughter of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde.[2] Beaumont was educated at Eton College and then at Cheltenham College.[3] He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree.[3]
He contested King's Lynn in 1895, thereafter Buckingham in 1900 and Barnard Castle three years later.[3] Beaumont finally entered the British House of Commons in 1906, sitting for Eastbourne until January 1910.[1] He was invested as a Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1918[4] and was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the next year.[5]
On 26 May 1900, he married Elisa Mercedes Grace, daughter of Michael Paul Grace. She drowned on 10 August 1917.[5] Their only son was Michael Wentworth Beaumont.[5]
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Lindsay Hogg |
Member of Parliament for Eastbourne 1906 – January 1910 |
Succeeded by Rupert Sackville Gwynne |