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     Beaumont, Thomas Wentworth 1792-1848, politician, was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, and Diana, daughter of Sir S. W. Blackett, baronet, of Hexham Abbey, and was born 15 Nov. 1792. He was educated at Eton, and in 1809 became a fellow commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1813. In 1818 he succeeded his father in the representation of Northumberland, but in 1826 he lost the election, in circumstances which led to a duel on Bamburgh sands with Mr. Lambton, afterwards Earl of Durham. In Dec. of the same year he was returned for Stafford and sat till 1830, when he was returned for Northumberland; from the passing of the Reform Bill he represented the southern division of that county until 1837. In early life he was a member of the Pitt Club, but from 1820 an advanced liberal and among the most energetic of politicians in the cause of reform. Acquiring, on the death of his mother in 1831, a large accession of property, he took also an active interest in the advancement of the fine arts, and by his munificent generosity won the attachment of many friends. He was one of the chief originators of the Westminister Review, to which he is said to have contributed some articles. Some of his verses are contained in the Musæ Etonenses. He died at Bournemouth 20 Dec. 1848.

Sources:
     Annual Register, xci. 213
     Latimer's Local Records of Remarkable Events in Northumberland and Durham (1857), p. 254.

Contributor: T. F. H. [Thomas Finlayson Henderson]

Published: 1885