Henry Beaumont OBE (7 October 1881 — 17 August 1964) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
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| Full name | Henry Beaumont | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 October 1881 Grantham, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 August 1964 (aged 82) Folkestone, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1905/06 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 27 October 2023 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Henry Beaumont senior, he was born at Grantham in October 1881. He was educated at Wellington College, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He graduated from there into the Lancashire Fusiliers as a second lieutenant in August 1900,[2] with promotion to lieutenant following in May 1902.[3] Whilst serving in British India with the Fusiliers, Beaumont made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees in the 1905–06 Bombay Quadrangular.[4] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 10 runs in the Europeans first innings by Jehangir Warden, while following-on in their second innings he was dismissed for 13 runs by K. B. Mistry.[5]
Beaumont later served in the First World War, having been promoted to captain only weeks before the start of the conflict.[6] During the war, he was promoted to major in September 1915 and was decorated by the Sultan of Egypt with the Order of the Nile, 4th Class in March 1916.[7] He was appointed to the staff in August 1916,[8] and was made an OBE.[8] Following the war, he retired from active service in December 1919.[9] Beaumont died at Folkestone in August 1964.
References
edit- ^ Bevir, Joseph Louis; Strangways, Arthur Henry Fox (1923). Wellington College Register, 1859-1923. Hunt.
- ^ "No. 27219". The London Gazette. 10 August 1900. p. 4947.
- ^ "No. 27441". The London Gazette. 10 June 1902. p. 3752.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Beaumont". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ "Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1905/06". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ "No. 28870". The London Gazette. 14 August 1914. p. 6403.
- ^ "No. 29506". The London Gazette. 14 March 1916. p. 2783.
- ^ a b "No. 29835". The London Gazette. 24 November 1916. p. 11410.
- ^ "No. 31677". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 December 1919. p. 15171.