Richard Beaumont-Thomas was the Managing Director of a major South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

 iron, steel and tinplate manufacturing company named Richard Thomas and Co Ltd which eventually merged with Baldwins to become Richard Thomas and Baldwins

Richard Thomas and Baldwins

Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd was a major United Kingdom iron, steel and tinplate producer, formed in 1948 by the merger of Richard Thomas & Co Ltd with Baldwins Ltd. It was absorbed into British Steel in 1967...

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He was born on 25 May 1860 at Oxford

Oxford

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, the eldest son of his father, tinplate manufacturer Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas (tin plate manufacturer)

Richard Thomas was an English tin plate manufacturer. He was the founder of Richard Thomas & Co., which later merged with Baldwins Ltd to become Richard Thomas and Baldwins, which in turn was absorbed into British Steel in the 1960s.-Biography:...

http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s1-THOM-RIC-1838.html. Richard Beaumont Thomas married Nora Anderson, the fourth daughter of James Anderson

James Anderson

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 at Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity Church

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, Tulse Hill

Tulse Hill

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, London on 2 August 1888.

Richard and Nora produced four children

• Vera Nora Beaumont-Thomas born 12 June 1889,
• Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas MC MP
  Lionel Beaumont Thomas
  Colonel Lionel Beaumont Thomas MC , was a Welsh businessman, British Army officer and politician, who served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton, from 1929 to 1935.-Biography:...
  
   born 1 Aug 1893,
• Irene Murial Beaumont-Thomas born 9 Oct 1894 and,
• Reginald Alexander Beaumont-Thomas born 3 Sep 1903.

Inventions

During 1885, assisted by Robert Davies, Richard Beaumont-Thomas invented a cleaning machine and a dusting machine. These machines made possible the continuous production of tinplate. Richard Beaumont-Thomas continued this inventive streak, in 1897 together with his brother Hubert Spence-Thomas, a continuous tinning machine was patented. The patents for these inventions were issued and utilised by the tinplate industry globally.

Will

Richard Beaumont-Thomas died on 14 February 1917 leaving a will of £449,285-18-9 pounds sterling. The will, due to its complexity was converted into a Private Bill, an Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament

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 named the Beaumont Thomas Estate 1929 (19 & 20 Geo.5)http://www.opsi.gov.uk/chron-tables/private/p-chron33 read in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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