Michael Beaumont

Michael Wentworth Beaumont TD, DL, JP (8 February 1903 – 19 December 1958)^[1] was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.

Biography

The son of Hubert George Beaumont and Elisa Mercedes Grace, he was the maternal grandson of Michael P. Grace and paternal grandson of the 1st Baron Allendale was educated in Eton College, Berkshire and Oundle School, Northamptonshire. Beaumont was further educated in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire and served in the Coldstream Guards reaching the rank of Lieutenant. In the service of the 90th Field Brigade, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry, Royal Artillery, he became Major and received the Territorial Decoration.

From 1927 to 1947, he was Justice of Peace for Buckinghamshire. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury at the 1929 general election,^[2] and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons on 2 May 1938.^[3] In 1931 and 1932, Beaumont was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1938 and was Master of Foxhounds of Bicester and Warden Hill between 1945 and 1947, and of Kildare between 1953 and 1959.

Beaumont married twice, firstly to Faith Pease, daughter of the 1st Baron Gainford on 29 February 1924 and secondly to Doreen Christian Davis-Goff, daughter of Sir Herbert Davis-Goff, 2nd Baronet on 30 December 1935. He had one son, Timothy Beaumont, by his first wife.

References

1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons Pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons3.htm. Retrieved 3 January 2010. 
2. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 295. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
3. ^ Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850". House of Commons Library. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf. Retrieved 30 November 2009. 

• "thePeerage". http://www.thepeerage.com/p529.htm#i5286. Retrieved 2006-12-21. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Beaumont

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne	Member of Parliament for Aylesbury 1929–1938	Succeeded by Stanley Reed

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Name	Beaumont, Michael
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Date of birth	8 February 1903
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Date of death	19 December 1958
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