Henry Beaufoy
Henry Beaufoy was a British MP.
He was the son of a Quaker wine merchant and educated at the academies at Hoxton and Warrington before studying at Edinburgh University in the early 1770s. He was a founder of Hackney College.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1782.
He was returned as Member of Parliament for Minehead and Great Yarmouth from 1784 until his death. As a Dissenter, he was a staunch advocate of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which limited the civil rights of non-members of the Church of England.
He was Secretary to the Board of Control.
He was a witness in John Horne Tooke's trial for high treason in 1794.
He was buried in St Mary's, Ealing. He had married Elizabeth Jenks in 1778.
