Mona Josephine Tempest Fitzalan-Howard, 11th Baroness Beaumont, Baroness Howard of Glossop, OBE (née Stapleton; 1 August 1894 – 31 August 1971) was a British peeress.
Mona was the elder of two daughters of Miles Stapleton, 10th Baron Beaumont and his wife, Mary. When her father accidentally shot and killed himself in 1895,[1] the Barony was suspended for three years and then fell into abeyance. There were two coheirs, Mona and her younger sister, Ivy Mary, but Ivy Mary was stillborn on 4 October 1895.[2] Almost a year later, Queen Victoria terminated the abeyance in the two year old's favour and Mona became the 11th Baroness Beaumont.[3]
On 5 September 1914 at St Mary's Church, Carlton, Yorkshire, she married the 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop (thus also becoming Baroness Howard of Glossop).[4] She and her husband were one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right. They had eight children:
In the New Years honours list for 1946, Lady Beaumont was awarded the OBE[5] for her services during World War II to the British Red Cross at York Military Hospital, Goole.[6]
Due to a spinal injury, in later life she used a wheelchair. After the passage of the Peerage Act 1963, Beaumont became the third peeress in her own right to take her seat in the House of Lords; her husband pushed her wheelchair when she took her seat.[3][7] She never spoke in the House of Lords. On her death in 1971 at the age of 77, her title passed to her eldest son, Miles, who inherited the dukedom of Norfolk from his father's cousin in 1975 and added his mother's maiden name to his own.
| Peerage of England | ||
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| Preceded by Miles Stapleton (abeyant 1895) |
Baroness Beaumont 1896–1971 (abeyancy terminated) |
Succeeded by Miles Fitzalan-Howard |