{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1847–1922)}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Admiral | name = Sir Lewis Beaumont | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|KCMG}} | birth_date = 19 May 1847<ref>{{cite web |title= Beaumont, Lewis Anthony |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8115114 |website= Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies |publisher=The National Archives |accessdate=7 May 2019 |date=December 1860}}</ref> | death_date = {{d-da|20 June 1922|19 May 1847}} | birth_place = Paris, France<ref>''1891 England Census''</ref> | death_place = Cuckfield, Sussex, England | image = File:Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont.jpg | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | service_years = | rank = Admiral | commands = Pacific Station<br />Australia Station<br />Plymouth Command | branch = 23px Royal Navy | unit = | battles = | awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath<br />Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George | other_work = }} Admiral '''Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|KCMG}} (19 May 1847 &ndash; 20 June 1922) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

==Naval career== Beaumont joined the Royal Navy as a boy in 1860 and was engaged in operations in Malaya by 1875.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12828489 |title=Australian Naval Station: The New Admiral |newspaper=The Hobart Mercury |date=25 January 1901 |via=Trove}}</ref> Between 1875 and 1876 he took part as senior lieutenant in the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares on {{HMS|Discovery|1874|6}}, an attempt to reach the North Pole and to explore the northwest coast of Greenland. Beaumont led a dogsled party that reached Sherard Osborn Fjord in May 1876 and left a cairn at Repulse Harbour.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201022004811/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/71bedd62-c77f-3733-8d3b-03ab25c8a1e0 Lewis Beaumont collection]</ref>

He was given command of {{HMS|Excellent|shore establishment|6}} in 1893,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716182235/http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5996 World Ships Forum]</ref> before becoming Director of Naval Intelligence in 1895.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/royalnavy07clow/royalnavy07clow_djvu.txt |title=The Royal Navy: A history from earliest times to the present |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston and Company |location=London |date=1903 |volume=VII |last=Clowes |first=William Laird |via=The Internet Archive}}</ref>

He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1899<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120403154233/http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19020731.2.16.aspx The Straits Times, 31 July 1902, Page 4]</ref> and Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station in 1900.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14342803?searchTerm=Beaumont |title=Admiral Beaumont's staff |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=9 January 1901 |page=7 |via=Trove}}</ref> During his time in Australia, he had {{HMS|Royal Arthur|1891|6}} as his flagship, and he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on the occasion of the visit to Australia of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27338 |date=26 July 1901 |page=4950}}</ref> He was promoted to vice-admiral on 9 September 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 27473|date=12 September 1902 |page=5889}}</ref> and left Australia in January 1903 returning to the United Kingdom via New Zealand and the United States.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=17 January 1903 |page=9 |issue=36980}}</ref>

On his return, he took up the position of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, serving as such until 1908.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110711005754/http://www.fleetorganization.com/1906rnadmirals.html Royal Navy Flag Officers, June 1, 1906]</ref> He was promoted to admiral in 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27959|page=7017|date=19 October 1906}}</ref> He was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1911.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5242430 |title=Principle Aide-de-Camp, London |newspaper=The Adelaide Advertiser |page=11 |date=8 February 1911 |via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28464|page=1042|date=10 February 1911}}</ref> He retired in 1912.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19220621.2.99.2 |title=Death of Admiral Beaumont |newspaper=Evening Post |volume=CIII |issue=144 |date=21 June 1922 |page=8 |via=Papers Past}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28610|page=3685|date=21 May 1912}}</ref> {| |- valign="top" |thumb|300px|British flag left at a depot on Repulse Harbour by then Lieutenant Lewis Beaumont during Captain Nares' British Arctic Expedition. |}

Beaumont was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1904 Birthday Honours<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27732|page=7255|supp=y|date=9 November 1904}}</ref> and promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in the 1911 Coronation Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28505|page=4588|supp=y|date=19 June 1911}}</ref>

==Personal== In 1889 Beaumont married Mary Eleanor Perkins (died 1907), daughter of Charles C. Perkins, of Boston, U.S.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113898841 |title=Death of Lady Beaumont |newspaper=The Evening News (Sydney) |issue=12,631 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 December 1907 |access-date=11 May 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Cyprian Bridge}} {{s-ttl|title=Director of Naval Intelligence|years=1895–1899}} {{s-aft|after=Reginald Custance}} |- {{succession box|title=Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station|before=Henry Palliser|after=Andrew Bickford|years=1899&ndash;1900}} |- {{succession box| title=Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station| before= Hugo Pearson| after= Sir Arthur Fanshawe|years=1900&ndash;1903|}} |- {{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth | years=1903&ndash;1908 | before=Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott| after=Sir Wilmot Fawkes}} |- {{s-hon}} {{s-bef | before=Sir Jackie Fisher}} {{s-ttl | title=First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp | years=1911&ndash;1913}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Edmund Poë}} {{end}} {{Directors of Naval Intelligence}}

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