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

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2. "ThePeerage - Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Btt". Retrieved 15 February 2009.
3. 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.
4. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Leicester". Retrieved 30 March 2009.
5. 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.
6. 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.