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British politician (1864–1922)
Hubert George Beaumont (6 April 1864 – 14 August 1922),
[1] styled The Honourable from 1906, was a radical
[2]
British
Liberal Party politician.
Background
He was the third son of
Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale and his wife Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh, daughter of
Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde.
[3] Beaumont was educated at
Eton College and then at
Cheltenham College.
[4] He studied at
Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
[4] 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] He was invested as a Knight of Grace of the
Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1918
[6] and was appointed
High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the next year.
[5]
Political career
He contested
King's Lynn in 1895, thereafter
Buckingham in 1900 and
Barnard Castle three years later.
[4] Beaumont finally entered the
British House of Commons in 1906, sitting for
Eastbourne until January 1910 when he chose not to defend his seat.
[1] He briefly sat in the Commons at the same time as his older brother
Wentworth Beaumont.
He contested the
1913 London County Council election as a
Progressive candidate for
Clapham
Electoral record
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