Beaufoy Institute
Beaufoy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Henry Beaufoy (1750–1795), British politician *Mark Beaufoy (1764–1827), English astronomer, physicist, mountaineer, explorer, and British Army officer *Mark Hanbury Beaufoy (1854–1922), British vinegar manufacturer and politician *Simon Beaufoy Simon Beaufoy (; born 26 December 1966) is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College ...

Henry Beaufoy
Henry Beaufoy (November 1750 – 17 May 1795) was a British Member of Parliament. Life Beaufoy was the son of a Quaker wine merchant; after marrying, he conformed to the Church of England. He was educated at Hoxton Academy and Warrington Academy, going on to Edinburgh University in the early 1770s. He was a founder of Hackney College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1782. Beaufoy was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Minehead (1783–1784) and Great Yarmouth from 1784 until his death. He was a staunch advocate of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which limited the civil rights of non-members of the Church of England. He voted for abolition of the slave trade on 18 April 1791, but on 25 April 1792 announced his conversion to gradual abolition, in the hope that ‘the conclusions of my understanding may ultimately correspond with the dictates of my heart’. He expressed his fear that ‘too precipitate a benevolence augmented, while ...
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Mark Beaufoy
Colonel Mark Beaufoy FRS (4 March 1764 – 4 May 1827) was an English astronomer and physicist, mountaineer, explorer and British Army officer. His father, Mark Beaufoy (1718–1782), who was originally from Evesham, established a vinegar factory in Lambeth, London. He was the first-known English climber to make an ascent of a high mountain in the Alps. In 1787, he made an ascent (the fourth) of Mont Blanc. This mountain was an attraction to his fellow countrymen, such as J. D. Forbes (1809–1868), A. T. Malkin (1803–1888), John Ball (1818–1889) and Sir Alfred Wills (1828–1912). He describes his ascent of Mont Blanc: He devoted much of his life to naval experiments at the Greenland Dock with James Scott and Captain John Luard of the "Society for the Improvement in Naval Architecture". He published the results of his work in one of the leading scientific journals of the day, ''The Annals of Philosophy''. In 1815 he described a recording tide meter, and in the same ar ...
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Mark Hanbury Beaufoy
Mark Hanbury Beaufoy (21 September 1854 – 10 November 1922) was an English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament. He wrote ''A Father's Advice'', a famous piece of verse about gun safety. Background and early life The son of Lieutenant Commander George Beaufoy (1796–1864), and the grandson of Colonel Mark Beaufoy (1764–1827), Beaufoy, born in South Lambeth, London was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The Beaufoys had been vinegar makers since the 1740s, when Colonel Mark Beaufoy's father, another Mark Beaufoy (1718–1782) who was originally from Evesham, established a vinegar plant at Cuper's Gardens, on a site which later formed part of Waterloo Bridge. Despite being his father's youngest son, George Beaufoy succeeded to the vinegar works in 1851, when he retired from the Navy. The next year he married Anne Harvey, with whom he had three children. George Beaufoy died in 1864, leaving his business in trust for Beaufoy, his only son, who was ...
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