John Ralph Beaumont

John Ralph Beaumont DL, JP (22 April 1927 – November 1992)[1] was a Rhodesian politician. He was the son of Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont, son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, and his wife Helena Mary Christine Wray, daughter of Cecil Wray.[2]

Education

He was educated at Eton College and then Christ Church College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1952.[1]

Career

In the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland election, 1962, Beaumont was elected for Mrewa, sitting for the constituency until the federation's dissolution in the following year.[3] He became a Justice of the Peace of Powys in 1976[4] and represented the county as Deputy Lieutenant from 1983.[5]

Family

On 26 June 1951, he married Audrey Lilian Christine Hickling, daughter of Edward Thomas Hickling, and had by her six children, five sons and one daughter.[1]


Death

Beaumont died, aged 65 in Wales.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "ThePeerage - John Ralph Beaumont". Retrieved 21 December 2006.
  2. ↑ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 122.
  3. ↑ "The Society of Heraldic Arts - An Armorial of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia" (PDF). Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46795. p. 581. 13 January 1976. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 49338. p. 5981. 3 May 1983. Retrieved 7 August 2009.