John Ralph Beaumont
# John Ralph Beaumont

John Ralph Beaumont DL, JP (22 April 1927 – November 1992) 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.:

* Ralph Wentworth Christopher Beaumont b. 4 Apr 1952
* Nigel Canning Vane Beaumont b. 8 Jan 1954
* Andrew John Blackett Beaumont b. 27 Mar 1956
* Louise Christine Winsmore Beaumont b. 27 Mar 1956
* Hugh Edward Stewart Beaumont b. 25 Mar 1959
* Peter John Tempest Beaumont b. 29 Dec 1964

## Death

Beaumont died, aged 65 in Wales.

