John Ralph Beaumont


John Ralph Beaumont DL, JP was a Rhodesian politician. He was the son of Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont, son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, and his wife Helena Mary Christine Wray, daughter of Cecil Wray.

Education

He was educated at Eton College and then Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1952.

Career

In the 1962 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland election, Beaumont was elected for Mrewa, sitting for the constituency until the federation's dissolution in the following year.
He became a Justice of the Peace of Powys in 1976 and represented the county as Deputy Lieutenant from 1983.

Residence

In his later years he lived in the family home at Plas Llwyngwern, near Machynlleth.

Family

On 26 June 1951, he married Audrey Lilian Christine Hickling, daughter of Edward Thomas Hickling, and had by her six children, five sons and one daughter.:
Beaumont died, aged 65 in Wales.