Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)
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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]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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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]- ^ 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) - ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1907
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. Vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett.
- ^ a b c Who's Who 1914 (66th ed.). Adam & Charles Black. 1914. pp. 135–136.
- ^ a b c "ThePeerage – Hon. Hubert George Beaumont". Retrieved 21 December 2006.
- ^ "No. 30501". The London Gazette. 29 January 1918. p. 1425.
- ^ a b c The New Hazell Annual and Almanack, 1916
External links
[edit]- 1864 births
- 1922 deaths
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- British Army personnel of World War I
- High sheriffs of Buckinghamshire
- Knights of Grace of the Order of St John
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- People educated at Cheltenham College
- People educated at Eton College
- UK MPs 1906–1910
- Younger sons of barons