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[edit]Francis William Lionel Collings Beaumont was born on 6 August 1903.[1][2] He was the second child of Dudley John Beaumont and Sibyl Mary Collings, daughter of the Seigneur of Sark, the ruling family of the island of Sark.[2][3][4] Sark is a self governing territory that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. The island has been called one of the last feudal outposts in Western Europe, a term used by Beaumont’s mother to describe the island’s political system.[5] Beaumont was named after his grandfather, William Frederick Collings, the 20th Seigneur of Sark,[6] but was often called by his nickname, Buster.[7] On his father’s side of the family, Beaumont descended from a line of notable British Army officers. His father served in France during the First World War and died in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic.[8][9] His grandfather, William Spencer Beaumont, was a captain in the 14th King's Hussars cavalry regiment,[8] while his great-great grandfather, John Thomas Barber Beaumont was a well known miniature painter who in 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, raised The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters corps.[10]
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[edit]Francis William Lionel Collings Beaumont was born on 6 August 1903.He was the second child of Dudley John Beaumont and Sibyl Mary Collings, daughter of the Seigneur of Sark, the ruling family of the island of Sark.Sark is a self governing territory that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. The island has been called one of the last feudal outposts in Western Europe, a term used by Beaumont’s mother to describe the island’s political system. Beaumont was named after his grandfather, William Frederick Collings, the 20th Seigneur of Sark, but was often called by his nickname, Buster. On his father’s side of the family, Beaumont descended from a line of notable British Army officers. His father served in France during the First World War and died in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. His grandfather, William Spencer Beaumont, was a captain in the 14th King's Hussars cavalry regiment, while his great-great grandfather, John Thomas Barber Beaumont was a well known miniature painter who in 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, raised The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters corps.[1][2] [10] [2][3][4][5] [6] [7][8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Old Elizabethans Killed During World War Two". The Old Elizabethan Association. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d "CHANNEL-ISLANDS-L Archives". Rootsweb. 1997. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
- ^ a b "Casualty Details: Francis William Lionel C. Beaumont". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ a b "Dudley John Beaumont". Clan Moffat Genealogy. 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
- ^ a b Hathaway, Sibyl (1962). Dame of Sark: An Autobiography. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. p. 2.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b "William Frederick Collings". Clan Moffat Genealogy. 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
- ^ a b Hathaway, Sibyl (1962). Dame of Sark: An Autobiography. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. p. 70.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b c "Casualty Details: D. J. Beaumont". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ a b Hathaway, Sibyl (1962). Dame of Sark: An Autobiography. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. p. 59.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b "John Thomas Barber Beaumon, 1774-1841". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society. VII: 265–268. 1886–1887. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
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