William Spencer Beaumont
Captain William Spencer Beaumont (29 May 1848[1] – 2 August 1926) was a British army officer and a member of the London County Council.
Beaumont was the grandson of John Thomas Barber Beaumont, who raised the Queen Victoria's Rifles in 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars.[2] His parents were John Augustus Beaumont and Caroline Mary Beaumont, who owned Wimbledon Park.[1][3] Beaumont served as a captain in the 14th King's Hussars cavalry regiment in the British Army.[4] In 1889 he was an elected a member of the London County Council to represent Tower Hamlets, Stepney. In 1890, Beaumont petitioned Ecclesiastical Commissioners for a Church site.[5]
Family
Beaumont married Honoria Cooper in 1876,[3][4] and they had at least three children:
- Dudley John Beaumont (1877–1918); who married Sibyl Collings, later Dame of Sark.[4] His grandson was Francis William Beaumont (1903–1941) and his great-great-grandson is the 23rd Seigneur of Sark, Christopher Beaumont.
- Norah Augusta Beaumont (1880–1961)
- Violet Rachel Beaumont (b. 1883); who married in 1903 Peter Rupert Bassett, only son of Theodore Bassett, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire.[6]
References
- 1 2 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- ↑ "QUEEN VICTORIA'S RIFLES" (PDF). King's Royal Rifle Corps Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- 1 2 "Visitation of Ireland". Internet Archive. 1897. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
- 1 2 3 "Casualty Details: D. J. Beaumont". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ↑ "SAINT FAITH, STEPNEY; SHANDY STREET, TOWER HAMLETS" P93/FAI/12 31 July 1890 London Metropolitan Archives
- ↑ "Marriages". The Times. No. 37009. London. 20 February 1903. p. 1.