Sir Montagu Harry Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet (19 April 1860 – 26 October 1939) was a British Anglican Christian missionary.

Biography

Proctor-Beauchamp was the fourth son of Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet, and his wife the Hon. Catherine Esther, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and

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. Proctor-Beauchamp was one of the Cambridge Seven, students from

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, who in 1885 decided to become missionaries in China. He served with the

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during the late

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in China. Together with Arthur T. Polhill-Turner and

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, the three established a proper

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diocese in Szechwan. He was evacuated from China during the Boxer Rising in 1900, but was back in China again from 1902 to 1911. On returning to England Beauchamp was ordained, becoming Vicar of

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between 1914 and 1918. He was Principal Chaplain of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in

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, serving in Egypt and Greece, and he was mentioned in dispatches in 1916. He was senior chaplain Chaplain to the Forces of the North Russian Expeditionary Force in

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in northern Russia in 1919, and appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Forces in 1921. Proctor-Beauchamp married Florence, daughter of Robert Barclay, in 1892. They had several children. He succeeded in the Proctor-Beauchamp baronetcy in 1915 when his elder brother Horace was killed in the

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. He died in October 1939, aged 79, buried in the cemetery of

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. He was succeeded in his title by his third but eldest surviving son, Ivor. Lady Proctor-Beauchamp died in May 1955.

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* 1860 births 1939 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Anglican missionaries in Sichuan Anglican writers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English Anglican missionaries Diocese of Szechwan {{Christianity-bio-stub

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