Somerset Beaumont

Somerset Archibald Beaumont DL, FRGS (6 February 1835 – 8 December 1921) was a British Liberal politician.

Beaumont was the third son of the politician Thomas Wentworth Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson.^[1] His younger brother was Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale.^[1] Beaumont was educated at Harrow School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He stood successfully in a by-election for Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1860, a seat he held until 1865.^[3] In the general election of 1868 Beaumont was returned to the House of Commons again and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield until 1874.^[4] He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.^[5]

Beaumont was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland.^[6] He died in 1921 aged 86, unmarried and childless.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Debrett, John (1870). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son.
^ "Beaumont, [Richard] Somerset Archibald (BMNT853RS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Wakefield". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
^ Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1914. p. 136.
^ ^a ^b "ThePeerage - Somerset Archibald Beaumont". Retrieved 15 February 2009.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Emerson Headlam George Ridley	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1860 – 1865 With: Thomas Emerson Headlam	Succeeded by Thomas Emerson Headlam Joseph Cowen
Preceded by William Henry Leatham	Member of Parliament for Wakefield 1868 – 1874	Succeeded by Edward Green

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