Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)
{{Short description|British politician (1864–1922)}}
{{Other people|Hubert Beaumont}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}
{{infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = {{nowrap|Hubert George Beaumont}}
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Hubert Beaumont (London Daily News portrait).jpg
| caption = Beaumont in 1906
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1864|4|6}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1922|8|14|1864|4|6}}
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| education = Eton College
Cheltenham College
| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford
| father = {{nowrap|Wentworth Beaumont}}
| mother = Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh
| spouse = {{marriage|Elisa Mercedes Grace|26 May 1900|10 August 1917|end=died}}
| children = 1
| party = Liberal Party
| relatives = Michael Beaumont (son)
{{nowrap|Ulick de Burgh (maternal grandfather)}}
Wentworth Beaumont (brother)
| office = Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
| term_start = 1906
| term_end = January 1910
| alongside =
| predecessor = Lindsay Hogg
| successor = Rupert Sackville Gwynne
}}
Hubert George Beaumont (6 April 1864 – 14 August 1922), styled The Honourable from 1906, was a radicalDod's Parliamentary Companion, 1907 British Liberal Party politician.
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.{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|volume=I|year=1929}} Beaumont was educated at Eton College and then at Cheltenham College. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree.{{cite book|title=Who's Who 1914|publisher=Adam & Charles Black|edition=66th|year=1914|pages=135–136 }} On 26 May 1900, he married Elisa Mercedes Grace, daughter of Michael Paul Grace. She drowned on 10 August 1917.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p529.htm#i5283|title=ThePeerage – Hon. Hubert George Beaumont|access-date=21 December 2006}} Their only son was Michael Wentworth Beaumont. He was invested as a Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1918{{ London Gazette|issue=30501|page=1425|date=29 January 1918 }} and was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the next year.
Political career
He contested King's Lynn in 1895, thereafter Buckingham in 1900 and Barnard Castle three years later. Beaumont finally entered the British House of Commons in 1906, sitting for Eastbourne until January 1910 when he chose not to defend his seat.{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm|title=Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Eastbourne|access-date=23 August 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190716/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm|archive-date=29 October 2013}} 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=
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1895: King's Lynn
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=Thomas Gibson Bowles
|votes=1,395
|percentage=51.3
|change=+1.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=Hubert Beaumont
|votes=1,326
|percentage=48.7
|change=-1.1
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes=69
|percentage=2.6
|change=+2.2
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes=2,721
|percentage=91.3
|change=+2.8
}}
{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors=2,979
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner=Conservative Party (UK)
|swing=+1.1
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1900: Buckingham
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=William Carlile
|votes=5,101
|percentage=52.1
|change=−0.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=Hubert Beaumont
|votes=4,684
|percentage=47.9
|change=+0.1
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes=417
|percentage=4.2
|change=−0.2
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes=9,785
|percentage=83.7
|change=−4.9
}}
{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors=11,685
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner=Conservative Party (UK)
|swing=−0.1
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin
|title=By-election, 1903: Barnard Castle
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party=Labour Representation Committee (1900)
|candidate=Arthur Henderson
|votes=3,370
|percentage=35.47
|change=n/a
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=William Lyonel Vane
|votes=3,323
|percentage=34.97
|change=−6.34
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=Hubert Beaumont
|votes=2,809
|percentage=29.56
|change=−29.13
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes=47
|percentage=0.49
|change=n/a
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes=9,502
|percentage=84.64
|change=+6.95
}}
{{Election box registered electors
|reg. electors=11,226
}}
{{Election box gain with party link no swing
|winner=Labour Representation Committee (1900)
|loser=Liberal Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1906: Eastbourne
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=Hubert Beaumont
|votes=5,933
|percentage=52.8
|change=+6.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=Lindsay Hogg
|votes=5,303
|percentage=47.2
|change=-6.6
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes=630
|percentage=5.6
|change=n/a
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes=11,236
|percentage=87.0
|change=+5.2
}}
{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors=12,913
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner=Liberal Party (UK)
|loser=Conservative Party (UK)
|swing=+6.6
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin |
|title=1913 London County Council election:ClaphamThe New Hazell Annual and Almanack, 1916
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Municipal Reform Party
|candidate =Robert Montefiore Sebag-Montefiore
|votes =8,890
|percentage = 28.0
|change =-2.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Municipal Reform Party
|candidate =Herbert James Francis Parsons
|votes =8,881
|percentage = 27.9
|change =-2.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Progressive Party (London)
|candidate =Hubert George Beaumont
|votes = 7,049
|percentage = 22.2
|change =+2.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Progressive Party (London)
|candidate = Oswald Partington
|votes = 6,971
|percentage = 21.9
|change =+2.4
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,832
|percentage = 5.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Municipal Reform Party
|swing =-2.5
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
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External links
- {{hansard-contribs|hon-hubert-beaumont|Hubert Beaumont}}
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{{s-par|uk}}
{{s-bef|before=Lindsay Hogg }}
{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
|years=1906 – January 1910 }}
{{s-aft|after=Rupert Sackville Gwynne }}
{{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beaumont, Hubert George}}
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