Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet JP (2 August 1574 – 28 October 1631)[1] was an English politician.

He was a son of Edmund Beaumont and Elizabeth Ramsden, daughter of John Ramsden.[2] Knighted by James I of England in 1609, he commanded two hundred train-band soldiers per commission in 1613.[2] Two years later he was a Justice of the Peace of the County of York.[3] Beaumont sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract in 1625.[3] On 15 August 1628 Charles I created him a Baronet, of Whitley, in the County of York.[1] Beaumont died unmarried and with his death the baronetcy became extinct.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB2.htm. Retrieved 27 March 2009. 
  2. ^ a b Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke. ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. pp. 49. 
  3. ^ a b c "ThePeerage - Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st and last Bt". http://thepeerage.com/p13547.htm#i135469. Retrieved 14 February 2009. 
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
 (of Whitley)
1628–1631		 Extinct