Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet

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Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet (died 11 August 1676)^[1] was an English politician.

Biography

Beaumont was the oldest son of Sir Henry Beaumont (son of Thomas Beaumont) and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Turpin.^[2] Beaumont sat as a member of parliament (MP) for Leicestershire between 1654 and 1659^[1] and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire between 1668 and 1669.^[3] On 5 March 1658, he was created a baronet, of Stoughton Grange, in the County of Leicester by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.^[3] After the Restoration however this creation was declared invalid and Beaumont received a new patent, dated on 21 February 1661.^[2]

Family

Beaumont married Elizabeth Trott, daughter of Sir Nicholas Trott.^[4] They had three sons and three daughters.^[4] Beaumont was buried at Stoughton, Leicestershire ^[3] and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Henry.^[4]

Notes

1 2 Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 2)
1 2 Burke 1832, p. 93.
1 2 3 Lundy 2011.
1 2 3 Kimber 1771, p. 164.

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References

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
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, p. 164
Lundy, Darryl (1 February 2011), Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Bt, The Peerage, p. 12041 § 120408, retrieved 1 February 2009^{[ self-published source ]}