Henry Beaufoy was a British MP.

He was the son of a Quaker wine merchant and educated at the academies at Hoxton and Warrington before studying at Edinburgh University in the early 1770s. He was a founder of Hackney College

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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1782.

He was returned as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Minehead

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 (1783–1784) and Great Yarmouth

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from 1784 until his death. As a Dissenter, he was a staunch advocate of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which limited the civil rights of non-members of the Church of England.

He was Secretary to the Board of Control and tried for high treason in 1794. He was buried in St Mary's, Ealing. He had married Elizabeth Jenks in 1778.