# Lewis Beaumont

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{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1847–1922)}}
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| honorific_prefix = [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy))
| 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](/source/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)) |accessdate=7 May 2019 |date=December 1860}}</ref>
| death_date       = {{d-da|20 June 1922|19 May 1847}}
| birth_place      = [Paris](/source/Paris), France<ref>''1891 England Census''</ref>
| death_place      = [Cuckfield](/source/Cuckfield), Sussex, England
| image            = File:Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont.jpg
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| allegiance       = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
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| rank             = [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy))
| commands         = [Pacific Station](/source/Pacific_Station)<br />[Australia Station](/source/Australia_Station)<br />[Plymouth Command](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Plymouth)
| branch           = 23px [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy)
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| awards           = [Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath)<br />[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George](/source/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George)
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[Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)) '''Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|KCMG}} (19 May 1847 &ndash; 20 June 1922) was a [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer who served as [Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Plymouth).

==Naval career==
Beaumont joined the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) as a boy in 1860 and was engaged in operations in [Malaya](/source/British_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](/source/British_Arctic_Expedition) led by [George Nares](/source/George_Nares) on {{HMS|Discovery|1874|6}}, an attempt to reach the [North Pole](/source/North_Pole) and to explore the northwest coast of [Greenland](/source/Greenland). Beaumont led a [dogsled](/source/dogsled) party that reached [Sherard Osborn Fjord](/source/Sherard_Osborn_Fjord) in May 1876 and left a [cairn](/source/cairn) at [Repulse Harbour](/source/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](/source/Naval_Intelligence_Division_(United_Kingdom)) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/flagship), and he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [Order of St Michael and St George](/source/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](/source/George_V) and [Queen Mary](/source/Mary_of_Teck)).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27338 |date=26 July 1901 |page=4950}}</ref> He was promoted to [vice-admiral](/source/Vice_admiral_(Royal_Navy)) 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](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_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](/source/List_of_First_and_Principal_Naval_Aides-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>
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|thumb|300px|British flag left at a depot on Repulse Harbour by then Lieutenant Lewis Beaumont during Captain Nares' British Arctic Expedition.
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Beaumont was appointed a [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath](/source/Order_of_the_Bath) in the [1904 Birthday Honours](/source/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](/source/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)](/source/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==
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{{s-bef|before=[Cyprian Bridge](/source/Cyprian_Bridge)}}
{{s-ttl|title=[Director of Naval Intelligence](/source/Naval_Intelligence_Division_(United_Kingdom))|years=1895–1899}}
{{s-aft|after=[Reginald Custance](/source/Reginald_Custance)}}
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{{succession box|title=[Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station](/source/Pacific_Station)|before=[Henry Palliser](/source/Henry_Palliser)|after=[Andrew Bickford](/source/Andrew_Bickford)|years=1899&ndash;1900}}
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{{succession box| title=[Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station](/source/Australia_Station)| before= [Hugo Pearson](/source/Hugo_Pearson)| after= [Sir Arthur Fanshawe](/source/Arthur_Dalrymple_Fanshawe)|years=1900&ndash;1903|}}
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{{succession box | title=[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Plymouth) | years=1903&ndash;1908 | before=[Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott](/source/Lord_Charles_Montagu_Douglas_Scott)| after=[Sir Wilmot Fawkes](/source/Wilmot_Fawkes)}}
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{{s-bef | before=[Sir Jackie Fisher](/source/John_Fisher%2C_1st_Baron_Fisher)}}
{{s-ttl | title=[First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp](/source/List_of_First_and_Principal_Naval_Aides-de-Camp) | years=1911&ndash;1913}}
{{s-aft | after=[Sir Edmund Poë](/source/Edmund_Po%C3%AB)}}
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