Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Eastbourne". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm. Retrieved 23 August 2009. 
  2. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. 
  3. ^ a b c Who's Who 1914 (66th ed.). Adam & Charles Black. 1914. pp. 135–136. 
  4. ^ London Gazette: no. 30501. p. 1425. 29 January 1918. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  5. ^ a b c "ThePeerage - Hon. Hubert George Beaumont". http://www.thepeerage.com/p529.htm#i5283. Retrieved 21 December 2006. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lindsay Hogg
Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
1906January 1910
Succeeded by
Rupert Sackville Gwynne