The Beauchamp-Proctor, later Proctor-Beauchamp Baronetcy, of Langley Park in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 20 February 1745 for the twenty-two-year-old William Beauchamp-Proctor, subsequently Member of Parliament

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 for Middlesex

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. Born William Beauchamp, he assumed the additional surname of Proctor according to the will of his maternal uncle, George Proctor, of Langley Park

Langley Hall

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, located in Loddon, Norfolk. It was built in 1737 for Richard Berney, on land that until the Dissolution of the Monasteries belonged to Langley Abbey, and sold two years later to George Proctor to enable Berney to repay his debts...

, Norfolk

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. The third Baronet was an Admiral

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 in the Royal Navy

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. The fourth Baronet assumed by Royal license the surname of Proctor-Beauchamp in lieu of Beauchamp-Proctor in 1852 and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk

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 in 1869.. The sixth Baronet was a Colonel

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 in the Norfolk Regiment and was killed in action in the First World War. The seventh Baronet was a missionary in China

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 and one of the Cambridge Seven

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The Cambridge Seven were seven students from Cambridge University, who in 1885, decided to become missionaries in China; the seven were:*Charles Thomas Studd*Montagu Harry Proctor Beauchamp*Stanley P. Smith*Arthur T. Polhill-Turner*Dixon Edward Hoste...

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Two other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Beauchamp, second son of Reverend William Henry Beauchamp, second son of the third Baronet, was a Liberal

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 politician and was created a Baronet in his own right in 1911 (see Beauchamp Baronets

Beauchamp Baronets

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). Edward Halhed Beauchamp, third son of George Edward Beauchamp, second son of the second Baronet, was a Captain

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 in the Royal Navy.

Heraldry

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• Arms: First and fourth, argent, a chevron, between three martlets, sable, for Proctor; second and third, gules, a fess between six billets (three and three barways), or, a canton ermine, for Beauchamp.
• Crest: On a mount, vert, a greyhound, sejant, argent, spotted, brown, collared, or.
• Motto: Toujours fidele (Always Faithful)
• Seat: Langley Park, Norfolk.

Beauchamp-Proctor Baronets of Langley Park

• Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 1st Baronet (1722-1773). Son of Thomas Beauchamp (b.1724) and Anne Proctor (b.1745), grandson of Ephraim Beauchamp (d.1728)
• Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor, 2nd Baronet (1756-1827)
• Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet
  Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet
  Admiral Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet was an officer in the Royal Navy.The son of Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor, 2nd Baronet and Mary Palmer, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 29 June 1827....
  
   (1781-1861)
• Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet (1815-1874)
• Sir Reginald William Proctor-Beauchamp, 5th Baronet (1853-1912)
• Sir Horace George Proctor-Beauchamp, 6th Baronet (1856-1915)
• Sir Montagu Harry Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet
  Sir Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet
  Sir Montagu Harry Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet was a British Protestant Christian missionary.Proctor-Beauchamp was the fourth son of Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet, and his wife the Hon. Catherine Esther, daughter of Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock. He was...
  
  (1860-1939)
• Sir Ivor Cuthbert Proctor-Beauchamp, 8th Baronet (1900-1971)
• Sir Christopher Radstock Proctor-Beauchamp, 9th Baronet (b. 1935)

Ancestry

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