Thomas Beaumont (died 1614)

Sir Thomas Beaumont (1576 - 1614) of Stourton Grange, Leicestershire was an English Member of Parliament for Leicester.

His father, Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton was also an MP and his mother, Anne was the daughter of William Saunders of Welford, Northants. Thomas' elder brother Henry Beaumont preceded him as MP for Leicester. Thomas Beaumont was knighted in 1603 and elected MP for Leicester in 1604.[1]

Thomas Beaumont married Katherine Farnham, daughter of Thomas Farnham (MP) of Stoughton Grange. They produced ten children; three sons (Henry, Farnham, and Thomas) and seven daughters (Elizabeth, Frances, Anne, Elinor, Isabel, Jane, Mary).[2] Henry's son, Sir Thomas Beaumont, became the first Baronet of Stoughton Grange. Their daughter Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond was created Baroness (Scotland) in her own right by Charles I of England and her daughter (also named Elizabeth) married Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis.[3] Their eldest daughter Frances married Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna.

Upon Beaumont's death at the age of 38, the composer Thomas Vautor composed an elegiac madrigal in his honor.[4]

Upon his wife's death in 1621, the eldest daughter Elizabeth memorialized the family in a St Botolph Aldersgate Ward monument as follows:

1. Frances Beaumont, 2d Daughter, married to Sir Woolston Dyxy, of the County of Leicester, Knight.

2. Farnham Beaumont, 2d Sonne, married Luce Dawes, of Dawson in the County of Leicester.

3. Sir Henry Beaumont, Knight, eldest Sonne, married Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir William Turpin, of Knaptoft, in the County of Leicester, Knight.

4. Thomas Beaumont, 3d Sonne, lives unmarried.

5. Anne Beaumont, 3d Daughter, married to Sir John Dillon of Northamptonshire.

6. Jane Beaumont, 6th Daughter, married to William Temple, of London, Merchant.

7. Elinor Beaumont, 4th Daughter, lives unmarried.

8. Elizabeth Beaumont, eldest Daughter, married to Sir John Ashbornham, of Ashbornham in Sussex, Knight.

9. Isabel Beaumont, 5th Daughter, married to Hugh Snafell, of the County of Yorke.

10. Mary Beaumont, 7th Daughter, married to Richard Paramoure, Esquire.

In memory of the religious and vertuous Lady, Katharine Beaumont, late Widow of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Stoughton, in the County of Leicester, Knight, Daughter and sole Heire of Thomas Farnham, of Stoughton aforesaid, Esquire; Who deceased on Ascension day, Anno 1621. leaving Issue, then alive, as above written, three Sonnes and seven Daughters.

This Table was set up out of the Love and true Affection of Elizabeth, Lady Ashbornham, Widdow, her eldest Daughter, Anno 1622.

And Mary, one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashbornham, was likewise buried in this Church, November 25. 1619.

She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, An. Dom. 1622. about 18 years of Age; and having at her Death a Spiritual Combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein she prevailing most chearfully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to be married to Christ Jesus, the Lord of both.