BEAUFORT, Sir Francis (younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort 1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth). b. Collon 1774; entered navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794; constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway 1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830; corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. d. Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 213–30; Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv, 47–54 (1858); Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 524–27 (1858).
BEAUFORT, Francis Lestock (son of the preceding). b. 1815; in Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta 1863–76; author of Digest of the criminal law procedure in Bengal 1850. d. 1879.
BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of London, astronomer 1764–1827). Established 4 scholarships at Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s Nautical and hydraulic experiments 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. d. South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 7–12 (1865).
BEAULIE, Baron A. de. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, d. 43 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.
BEAUMONT, Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839). b. Richmond, Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct. 1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death; author of Austria and Central Italy 1849; The late edict of Court of Rome; Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland 1850, 7 ed. 1850. d. 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854.
BEAUMONT, Edward Blackett. b. 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S. d. 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878.
BEAUMONT, Sir George Howland, 9 Baronet. b. Addington park, Surrey 12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire 1852. d. Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882.
BEAUMONT, Rev. Joseph. b. Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794; Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and 1833–35, in London 1831–32, 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool 1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author of Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham 1838. d. in the pulpit of Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. Life by his son Joseph Beaumont 1856, portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. 1856, 381–403.
BEAUMONT, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1 July 1795; L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830; author of An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors 1837. d. Bradford 16 Oct. 1859.
BEAUMONT, William Rawlings. b. London 1803; studied at St. Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital; M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the Singer sewing machine. d. 12 Oct. 1875. Canadian Lancet 1 Nov. 1875.