Henry Frederick Beaumont DL JP (10 March 1833, in

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– 13 October 1913, in Ascot) was a British

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and

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politician. Beaumont was the son of Henry Ralph Beaumont, son of Thomas Beaumont. His mother was Katherine, daughter of Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet, while

Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale (11 April 1829 – 13 February 1907), was a British industrialist and Liberal politician. Background and education Allendale was the eldest son of Thomas Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma, ...

, was his first cousin. His father died when he was one year old and in 1845 his mother married as her second husband James Anlaby Legard. Beaumont was educated at

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and

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. He sat as

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for the West Riding of Yorkshire South from 1865 to 1874 and for

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from 1885 to 1892. He became a Liberal Unionist in 1886. He was also an Honorary Colonel in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the West Riding Division and a vice patron of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. He inherited the Whitley Beaumont estate from his godfather Richard Henry Beaumont. Beaumont married Maria Johanna, daughter of William Garthorpe, in 1857. They had two sons and eight daughters. He died in October 1913, aged 80. His wife died in July 1925.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beaumont, Henry 1833 births 1913 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deputy Lieutenants in England Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies

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