Brograve Beauchamp
Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Baronet (5 May 1897 – 25 August 1976)[1] was a British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician.
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Beauchamp was the son of the Liberal politician and Lloyd's chairman Sir Edward Beauchamp, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Betty Campbell Beauchamp (née Woods), an American from Columbus, Ohio.[2] Educated at Eton College, he served in the Life Guards during the First World War.[3] His elder brother, Edward Archibald Beauchamp, was killed in the war[4] and Brograve therefore succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1925.[5] Sir Brograve died on 25 August 1976 at the age of 79, and the title became extinct.[6]
Political career[]
At the 1922 general election, Beauchamp stood as a National Liberal candidate for the Lowestoft division of Suffolk. His father had just stepped down as the constituency's MP, and Brograve hoped to win the seat, but he lost heavily.[7] He did not stand again until the 1931 general election, when he was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastern division of Walthamstow. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1945 general election.[7] While in Parliament, he held a number of Parliamentary Private Secretary appointments, including in 1940 to Sir John Reith, Minister for Transport, and in 1942–43 to Richard Law, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.[8]
Family[]
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On 8 October 1923, Beauchamp married Lady Evelyn Leonora Almina Herbert, daughter of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.[9] They had one child, Patricia Evelyn Beauchamp (born 11 July 1925, died 7 October 2014).[10] Sir Brograve and Lady Evelyn are buried beside each other in Putney Vale Cemetery in South West London.[11][12]
In November 1922, before her marriage, Lady Evelyn and her father had been among the first people in modern times to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.[13] In the spring of 1923 Brograve and his parents visited Egypt, and were given a guided tour of Tutankhamun's tomb by the archaeologist Howard Carter.[14]
References[]
- ^ "Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Who Was Who 1971–1980. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1989. ISBN 0-7136-3227-5.
- ^ Army officers' service papers, 1914-22
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission records
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Bt". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- ^ "Burke's Peerage 2003, page 699".
- ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 265, 468. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion. London: Business Directories Ltd. 1943. p. 334.
- ^ Illustrated London News, Saturday 13 October 1923, page 6.
- ^ "Burke's Peerage 1970, page 206".
- ^ Putney Vale Cemetery: Burial and cremation records
- ^ "Confirmed by photograph of graves".
- ^ Bill Price. Tutankhamun, Egypt's Most Famous Pharaoh. pp. 119–128. Published Pocket Essentials, Hertfordshire. 2007. ISBN 9781842432402.
- ^ William Cross. Carnarvon, Carter and Tutankhamun Revisited: The Hidden Truths and Doomed Relationships. p. 77 Published by author. 2016. ISBN 9781905914364.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Brograve Beauchamp
- Portraits of Sir Brograve Beauchamp held by the National Portrait Gallery
- 1897 births
- 1976 deaths
- National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- UK MPs 1935–1945
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Beauchamp family
- People educated at Eton College
- Burials at Putney Vale Cemetery