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BEAUCLERK, AUBREY, 5TH DUKE OF ST. ALBANS, brother of Chambers Beauclerk (qv); b. 3 Jun 1740; adm. Jun 1746 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Apr 1758; MP Thetford 1761-8, Aldborough 1768-74; abroad in Italy 1778-81; succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Vere 1 Oct 1781 and his cousin as 5th Duke of St. Albans 15 Feb 1787; Hereditary Grand Falconer of England and Hereditary Registrar of the Court of Chancery; m. 4 May 1763 Lady Catherine Ponsonby, dau. of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (I) PC PC (I); d. 9 Feb 1802.

BEAUCLERK, CHAMBERS, son of Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, Admiral, Royal Navy, Lord Lieut. Berkshire, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Chambers, Hanworth, Middlesex; b. 22 Feb 1737/8 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jun 1746 (as James Beauclerk) (Hawkins'); left 1746; d. 16 Jul 1747.

BEAUFORT, SIR LEICESTER PAUL, younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, Rector of Lymm with Warburton, Cheshire, and Emily Nowell, second dau. of Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., KCB DCL FRS, EICS Canton, Governor of Hong Kong; b. 13 Dec 1853; adm. 21 Jun 1867 (James'); QS 29 Jan 1869; left Nov 1871; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1872; BA 1878; BCL and MA 1879; adm. Inner Temple 30 Jun 1876, called to bar 7 May 1879; Northern Circuit; member, London School Board 1888-9; Governor, Secretary and Judicial Commissioner, North Borneo 1889-95; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan and North Borneo 1895-1900; Chief Justice of Northern Rhodesia 1901-18; acting administrator, North-Eastern Rhodesia 1905-11; knighted 18 Feb 1919; m. 29 Mar 1883 Edith Mary, dau. of Rev. Charles Higman Griffith, Rector of Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire; d. at Wynberg, South Africa, 12 Aug 1926.

BEAUMAN, JOHN WILLIAM, son of William Beauman, Rutland Square, Dublin, and Charity, widow of Tenison Edwards, Old Court, Co. Wicklow, and dau. of John Barrington; b.; adm. 11 Sep 1809; left 1814; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 1 Apr 1816, aged 18; BA 1819; MA 1822; ordained; Vicar of Julianstown, Co. Meath; Vicar Choral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin; d. unm. 15 Apr 1828.

BEAUMONT, GEORGE, second son of Rev. Thomas George Beaumont, Rector of Chelmondiston, Suffolk [and/or Butterleigh, Devon], and Thomazine, dau. of Rev. John Bradshaw, Incumbent of Lambeg, co. Antrim, and Prebendary of Down; b. 30 Jun 1862; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1876; left Aug 1880; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1880, matr. Mich. 1880; Lieut., 1st West Indian Regt., 11 Mar 1885; Liverpool Regt., 8 May 1889; Capt., 1 Mar 1893; retd. 23 Jul 1902; served South African War 1899-1902; Adjt. -Gen., Maritzburg Depot, afterwards Commandant, Nooitgedacht; despatches LG 29 Jan 1902; Capt., TF Reserve, 3 Nov 1914; m. 1893 Cecilia, dau. of R. Roberts; d. 18 Nov 1925.

BEAUMONT, HENRY, son of Richard Beaumont, Whitley Beaumont, Kirkheaton, Yorks., and Susanna, dau. of Thomas Horton, Barkisland, Yorks.; bapt. 16 Jan 1716/7; adm. (aged 13) Nov 1731; he and his brother Richard boarded with Rev. John Hutton (BL, Add. MS. 41169, f. 11 r. ); left 1736; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Mar 1736/7; of Whitley Beaumont, Yorks.; d. unm. 14 Oct 1743.

BEAUMONT, JOHN, son of Gilbert Beaumont, Whatfield, Suffolk; b.; adm.; QS in 1566; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1568, adm. scholar 1570; BA 1572/3; MA 1576 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1581); BD 1583; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1575-81; see Camdeni Epistola, 1691, 343-4, for a letter written by Beaumont to Camden, dated 29 Apr 1578; ordained; Rector of Whatfield, Suffolk, from 1581; Rector of Aldham, Suffolk, 1583-95; preached at Norwich at the burning of Peter Cole, a tanner of Ipswich, for blasphemy, 1587; Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, from 1592; buried at Hadleigh 27 Apr 1599.

BEAUMONT, RICHARD, brother of Henry Beaumont (qv); b. 24 Jan 1719/20; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1731; left 1737; Univ. Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1738; succeeded brother at Whitley Beaumont; m. 1st, Judith, sister of Walter Hawksworth (qv); m. 2nd, 1747, Elizabeth, dau. of William Holt, Grizlehurst, Lancs.; d. 10 Sep 1764.

BEAUMONT, ROBERT, of Leicestershire; b.; at school under Adams (DNB); Peterhouse, Cambridge; BA 1543/4; MA 1550; BD 1560; DD 1564; Fellow of Peterhouse 1550; adm. Gray’s Inn 1541; resided at Zurich during reign of Queen Mary; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, 1559-61; ordained priest (Ely) 7 Jul 1560; Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 11 Oct 1560; Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge from 25 Aug 1561; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., 1564-5, 1566-7; collated to a Canonry of Ely 15 Nov 1564; a prominent figure in the Calvinistic movement at Cambridge against Parker’s ordinances; d. 6 Jun 1567. DNB.