Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet
Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet (2 April 1638 – 27 January 1689)[1] was an English politician.
He was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Trott, daughter of Sir Nicholas Trott, and was baptised at Stoughton Grange.[2] Beaumont was educated at St John's College, Oxford[2] and succeeded his father as baronet in 1676.[3] He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester between 1679 and 1689.[4]
On 2 April 1662, he married Elizabeth Farmer, daughter of George Farmer, at St Andrew's Church, Holborn.[2] They had seven daughters and fourteen sons (six having died as infants).[5] Beaumont was buried at Stoughton, Leicestershire[6] and was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his sons Thomas, George and Lewis.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
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- ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 93.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Leicester". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 164–165.
- ^ Collins, Arthur (1741). The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing. Vol. III. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 242.
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