Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)

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Beaumont in 1906

Hubert George Beaumont (6 April 1864 – 14 August 1922),[1] styled The Honourable from 1906, was a radical[2] British Liberal Party politician.

Background[edit]

He was the third son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale and his wife Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh, daughter of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde.[3] Beaumont was educated at Eton College and then at Cheltenham College.[4] He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree.[4] On 26 May 1900, he married Elisa Mercedes Grace, daughter of Michael Paul Grace. She drowned on 10 August 1917.[5] Their only son was Michael Wentworth Beaumont.[5] He was invested as a Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1918[6] and was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the next year.[5]

Political career[edit]

He contested King's Lynn in 1895, thereafter Buckingham in 1900 and Barnard Castle three years later.[4] Beaumont finally entered the British House of Commons in 1906, sitting for Eastbourne until January 1910 when he chose not to defend his seat.[1] He briefly sat in the Commons at the same time as his older brother Wentworth Beaumont. He contested the 1913 London County Council election as a Progressive candidate for Clapham

Electoral record[edit]

General election 1895: King's Lynn[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,395 51.3 +1.1
Liberal Hubert Beaumont 1,326 48.7 -1.1
Majority 69 2.6 +2.2
Turnout 2,721 91.3 +2.8
Registered electors 2,979
Conservative hold Swing +1.1
General election 1900: Buckingham[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Carlile 5,101 52.1 −0.1
Liberal Hubert Beaumont 4,684 47.9 +0.1
Majority 417 4.2 −0.2
Turnout 9,785 83.7 −4.9
Registered electors 11,685
Conservative hold Swing −0.1
By-election, 1903: Barnard Castle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Repr. Cmte. Arthur Henderson 3,370 35.47 n/a
Conservative William Lyonel Vane 3,323 34.97 −6.34
Liberal Hubert Beaumont 2,809 29.56 −29.13
Majority 47 0.49 n/a
Turnout 9,502 84.64 +6.95
Registered electors 11,226
Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Liberal
General election 1906: Eastbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hubert Beaumont 5,933 52.8 +6.6
Conservative Lindsay Hogg 5,303 47.2 -6.6
Majority 630 5.6 n/a
Turnout 11,236 87.0 +5.2
Registered electors 12,913
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +6.6
1913 London County Council election:Clapham[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Municipal Reform Robert Montefiore Sebag-Montefiore 8,890 28.0 -2.3
Municipal Reform Herbert James Francis Parsons 8,881 27.9 -2.7
Progressive Hubert George Beaumont 7,049 22.2 +2.7
Progressive Oswald Partington 6,971 21.9 +2.4
Majority 1,832 5.7
Municipal Reform hold Swing -2.5

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Eastbourne". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1907
  3. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. Vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett.
  4. ^ a b c Who's Who 1914 (66th ed.). Adam & Charles Black. 1914. pp. 135–136.
  5. ^ a b c "ThePeerage – Hon. Hubert George Beaumont". Retrieved 21 December 2006.
  6. ^ "No. 30501". The London Gazette. 29 January 1918. p. 1425.
  7. ^ a b c The New Hazell Annual and Almanack, 1916

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
1906January 1910
Succeeded by