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Somerset Beaumont

British, 1835 - 1921

BiographySomerset Archibald Beaumont DL, FRGS (6 February 1835 – 8 December 1921) was a British Liberal politician.

Beaumont was the third son of the politician Thomas Wentworth Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson.[1] His younger brother was Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale.[1] Beaumont was educated at Harrow School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He stood successfully in a by-election for Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1860, a seat he held until 1865.[3] In the general election of 1868 Beaumont was returned to the House of Commons again and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield until 1874.[4] He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.[5]

Beaumont was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland.[6] He died in 1921 aged 86, unmarried and childless.[6]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Beaumont; accessed 6/1/23 NW

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