William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont and Appian Way, (17 October 1873 – 30 December 1955)
Benny J Peiser, 17 October 1997 was a British author, journalist, lecturer, and editor. Beaumont was a staff writer for the ''

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'' and eventually became editor of the '' Bystander'' in 1903 and then ''

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'' in 1932. Beaumont's astronomical speculations were later mirrored by

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's works.

Family

Beaumont was the uncle of the British actress Muriel Beaumont, mother of writers

Angela du Maurier Angela Busson du Maurier (1 March 1904 – 5 February 2002) was an English actress and novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, ''It's Only the Sister'' (1951) and ''Old Maids Remember'' (1965). Her sister was the novelist Daphne du ...

and

Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geor ...

, and the painter

Jeanne du Maurier Jeanne du Maurier (27 March 1911 – 12 January 1997) was an English artist. She was the third daughter of Sir Gerald du Maurier and Muriel Beaumont, and sister of writers Daphne and Angela du Maurier. Life Jeanne du Maurier was born on 27 Ma ...

Theories

Beaumont accepted the existence of

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based on British folklore, and argued other mythological creatures were actually real. In ''Facts and Fallacies'' (1988) published by ''

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'', Beaumont's views are summarized: He was also a proponent of the Shakespeare authorship question, arguing

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

's plays were written by

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...

Works

*''The Riddle of the Earth'' (written under the name of Appian Way), Chapman & Hall, London (or Brentano's, New York), 1925
OCLC 1517479
*''The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts'', Rider & Co., London, 1932
OCLC 8997586
*''The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain'', Rider & Co., London, 1946 (Kessinger Publishing Co., 1997, ) *''Britain, the Key to World History'', Rider & Co., London, 1947Reviewed i
The Scotsman: ''The Grail, Jesus's children and Stone Age lasers: Scotland's madder myths – Scotland is the Lost City of Atlantis''
Diane Maclean, ''The Scotsman'', 15 April 2005 *''The Private Life of the Virgin Queen'', self-published, 1947
OCLC 601691
*''A Rebel in Fleet Street'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1948 (or 1944) (his autobiography) *''The Great Deception'' Rediscovered by the Comyns Beaumont Archive in 2015. Previously referenced as ''After Atlantis: the Greatest Story Never Told'' (a title bestowed by Robert Stephanos) in ''Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions'', John Michell, 2002, , pp. 136–143)

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