Armes Beaumont

{{Short description|Australian vocalist (1842–1913)}}

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| birth_name = Edward Armes Beaumont

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| birth_place = St Faith's, Norfolk, England

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| death_place = North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Edward Armes Beaumont (15 December 1842 – 17 July 1913) was a vocalist active in Australia.[http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/beaumont-edward-armes-2960 Obituary - Edward Armes Beaumont] Obituaries Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7267794 |title=Singer of Bygone Years. Death of Mr. Armes Beaumont. Fine Career Closed. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=20,899 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 July 1913 |access-date=27 December 2018 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146023998 |title=Australia's Sims Reeves. Edward Armes Beaumont |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=193 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=1 March 1889 |access-date=27 December 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}Kenneth Hince, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030119b.htm "Beaumont, Edward Armes (1842–1913)"], Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, MUP, 1969, pp. 126–127

Beaumont was born in St Faith's, Norfolk, England. He and his family moved to Melbourne in 1848 and later he sang in the choir at the Wesleyan Chapel in Brunswick St.

In 1870, he joined William Lyster's opera company and increased his concert singing, notably with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society.{{Citation | title=Armes Beaumont, tenor, ca. 1886 [Photograph] | publication-date=1886 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228712320 | access-date=27 December 2018 }}{{Citation | author1=Beaumont, Edward Armes, 1842-1913, (singer.) | author2=Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931, (singer.) | author3=Zelman, Alberto, 1874-1927, (conductor.) | author4=Levy, Charles, (conductor.) | author5=Melbourne Town Hall (host institution.) | title=Concert d'Adieu of Mr. E. Armes Beaumont in which Madame Melba gives her valuable assistance | publication-date=1903 | publisher=[Melbourne] Stillwell & Co., Printers | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/216398085 | access-date=27 December 2018 }}{{Citation | author1=Hodson, G. A. (George Alexander) | author2=Horsley, Charles Edward, 1822-1876 | author3=Beaumont, Armes | title=Tell me Mary how to woo thee? | publication-date=1870 | publisher=J.R. Clarke | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10085208 | access-date=27 December 2018 }}

He died at his home in North Melbourne on 17 July 1913.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49000884/armes-beaumont/ |title=Armes Beaumont |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=Melbourne |page=10 |date=1913-07-18 |access-date=2020-04-18 |via=Newspapers.com}}