Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet (died 11 August 1676)[1] was an English politician.

Biography

Beaumont was the oldest son of Sir Henry Beaumont and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Turpin.[2] Beaumont sat as a member of parliament (MP) for Leicestershire between 1654 and 1659[1] and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire between 1668 and 1669.[3] On 5 March 1658, he was created a baronet, of Stoughton Grange, in the County of Leicester by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.[3] After the Restoration however this creation was declared invalid and Beaumont received a new patent, dated on 21 February 1661.[2]

Family

Beaumont married Elizabeth Trott, daughter of Sir Nicholas Trott.[4] They had three sons and three daughters.[4] Beaumont was buried at Stoughton, Leicestershire[3] and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Henry.[4]

Notes

1. Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 2)
2. Burke 1832, p. 93.
3. Lundy 2011.
4. Kimber 1771, p. 164.

References

• Burke, John (1832), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, I (4th ed.), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, p. 93
• Kimber, Edward (1771), Richard Johnson (ed.), The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, II, London: Thomas Wotton, p. 164
• Lundy, Darryl (1 February 2011), Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Bt, The Peerage, p. 12041 § 120408, retrieved 1 February 2009

Further reading

• Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1903), Complete Baronetage 1649–1664, 3, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, p. 4, 164