Somerset Beaumont

Somerset Archibald Beaumont DL, FRGS (6 February 1835 – 8 December 1921) was a British Liberal politician.

Beaumont was the third son of the politician Thomas Wentworth Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson.[1] His younger brother was Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale.[1] Beaumont was educated at Harrow School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He stood successfully in a by-election for Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1860, a seat he held until 1865.[3] In the general election of 1868 Beaumont was returned to the House of Commons again and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield until 1874.[4] He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.[5]

Beaumont was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland.[6] He died in 1921, unmarried and childless.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Debrett, John (1870). Robert Henry Mair. ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. 
  2. ^ Beaumont, [Richard] Somerset Archibald in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  3. ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ncommons1.htm. Retrieved 30 April 2009. 
  4. ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Wakefield". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm. Retrieved 30 April 2009. 
  5. ^ Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd.. 1914. pp. 136. 
  6. ^ a b "ThePeerage - Somerset Archibald Beaumont". http://www.thepeerage.com/p522.htm#i5213. Retrieved 15 February 2009. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Emerson Headlam
George Ridley		 Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1860 – 1865
With: Thomas Emerson Headlam		 Succeeded by
Thomas Emerson Headlam
Joseph Cowen
Preceded by
William Henry Leatham		 Member of Parliament for Wakefield
1868 – 1874		 Succeeded by
Edward Green