Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)

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

For other people named Hubert Beaumont, see Hubert Beaumont (disambiguation).

Beaumont in 1906

Background

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

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
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
  1. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Eastbourne". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  2. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1907
  3. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett.
  4. Who's Who 1914 (66th ed.). Adam & Charles Black. 1914. pp. 135–136.
  5. "ThePeerage - Hon. Hubert George Beaumont". Retrieved 21 December 2006.
  6. "No. 30501". The London Gazette. 29 January 1918. p. 1425.
  7. The New Hazell Annual and Almanack, 1916
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lindsay Hogg		 Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
1906 – January 1910		 Succeeded by
Rupert Sackville Gwynne
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