BEAUMONT, MILES THOMAS STAPLETON, 8 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839_). _b._ Richmond, Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct. 1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death; author of _Austria and Central Italy_ 1849; _The late edict of Court of Rome_; _Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland_ 1850, _7 ed._ 1850. _d._ 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854. BEAUMONT, EDWARD BLACKETT. _b._ 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S. _d._ 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878. BEAUMONT, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND, 9 Baronet. _b._ Addington park, Surrey 12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire 1852. _d._ Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882. BEAUMONT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794; Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and 1833–35, in London 1831–32, 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool 1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author of _Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham_ 1838. _d._ in the pulpit of Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. _Life by his son Joseph Beaumont_ 1856, _portrait_; _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ 1856, 381–403. BEAUMONT, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1 July 1795; L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830; author of _An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors_ 1837. _d._ Bradford 16 Oct. 1859. BEAUMONT, WILLIAM RAWLINGS. _b._ London 1803; studied at St. Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital; M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the Singer sewing machine. _d._ 12 Oct. 1875. _Canadian Lancet 1 Nov. 1875._ BEAUREGARD, ELIZABETH, Countess de (_dau. of Joseph Hargett_). Known as Miss Howard; remarkable for her beauty; mistress of Louis Napoleon to 1853 when he created her Countess de Beauregard. (_m._ 16 May 1854 Clarence Trelawney, Hussar officer in the Austrian army, he was _b._ 20 Dec. 1826 and obtained a divorce in Court of appeal Paris Feb. 1865). _d._ Chateau of Beauregard near Versailles 20 Aug. 1865 aged 42.