Sir_Richard_Beaumont,_1st_Baronet

Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet

English politician

Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet JP (2 August 1574 – 28 October 1631)[1] was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.

Beaumont was a son of Edward Beaumont and Elizabeth Ramsden, daughter of John Ramsden.[2] He was knighted by James I of England in 1609. In 1613, he commanded two hundred train-band soldiers per commission.[2] Two years later he was a justice of the peace of the County of York.[3] In 1625 Beaumont was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract in the Useless Parliament.[3] On 15 August 1628 Charles I created him a baronet, of Whitley, in the County of York.[1]

He built the stately home, Whitley Beaumont near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.[4]

Beaumont died unmarried and with his death the baronetcy became extinct.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. [2]
    Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 49.
  3. [3]
    "ThePeerage – Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st and last Bt". Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  4. [4]
    Law, Edward. "HUDDERSFIELD & DISTRICT HISTORY CONNECTIONS WITH TITLED CLASSES IN MODERN TIMES".
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