Francis Beamish (MP)

Francis Bernard Beamish (5 April 1802 – 1 February 1868)[1][2] was an Irish Whig and Liberal politician.[3][4][5]

Francis Beamish
Member of Parliament for Cork City
In office 20 August 1853 – 12 July 1865 Serving with Nicholas Daniel Murphy (Feb. 1865–Jul. 1865) Francis Lyons (Jun. 1859–Feb. 1865) William Trant Fagan (1853–Jun. 1859)
Preceded by	Francis Murphy William Trant Fagan
Succeeded by	Nicholas Daniel Murphy John Maguire
In office 11 August 1837 – 5 July 1841 Serving with Daniel Callaghan
Preceded by	Herbert Baldwin Daniel Callaghan
Succeeded by	Daniel Callaghan Francis Murphy
Personal details
Born	5 April 1802
Died	1 February 1868 (aged 65)
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Liberal/Whig

Beamish was the son of William Beamish and Anne Jane Margaret (née Delacour) and, in 1837, married Catherine Savery de Lisle de Courcy, daughter of Michael de Courcy and Catherine de Lisle. They had at least one child: Francis Bernard Servington Beamish, who was born in 1839.[2]

A Freeman of Cork in 1827, Beamish was made Mayor of Cork in 1843, and High Sheriff of the City of Cork in 1852, and was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.[2]

Beamish was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Cork City at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1841, when he did not stand for re-election. He returned to the seat, again as a Whig, at a by-election in 1853—caused by the appointment of Francis Murphy as a Commissioner of Insolvency—and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until 1865, when he did not seek re-election.[2][3]

References

1. Rayment, Leigh (13 September 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
2. Lundy, Darryl (24 September 2018). "Francis Bernard Beamish". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
3. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 264. ISBN 0901714127.
4. Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 220–221. Retrieved 23 September 2018 – via Google Books.
5. "Aris's Birmingham Gazette". 29 August 1853. p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Francis Beamish