BEAUFORT, JOHN HENRY SOMERSET, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of Henry Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835_). _b._ 5 Feb. 1792; cornet 10 Hussars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Monmouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G. 1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. _d._ Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 series i_, 118–30 (1877); _Sporting Review xxxi_, 69–70 (1854); _I.L.N. xxiii_, 448, 476 (1853), _portrait_. BEAUFORT, SIR FRANCIS (_younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort 1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth_). _b._ Collon 1774; entered navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794; constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway 1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830; corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of _Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor_ 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. _d._ Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 213–30; _Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv_, 47–54 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 524–27 (1858). BEAUFORT, FRANCIS LESTOCK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1815; in Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta 1863–76; author of _Digest of the criminal law procedure in Bengal_ 1850. _d._ 1879. BEAUFOY, HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY (_eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of London, astronomer 1764–1827_). Established 4 scholarships at Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s _Nautical and hydraulic experiments_ 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. _d._ South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_, 7–12 (1865). BEAULIE, BARON A. DE. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, _d._ 43 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.