Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale (11 April 1829 – 13 February 1907) was a British industrialist and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Allendale was the eldest son of Thomas Beaumont

Thomas Wentworth Beaumont

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 and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma, daughter of John Atkinson, and was educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He was the owner of major estates and mines in Northumberland

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 and also sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Northumberland South

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 from 1852 to 1885 and for Tyneside

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 from 1886 to 1892. In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Allendale, of Allendale

Allendale, Northumberland

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 and Hexham

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 in the County of Northumberland

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.

Lord Allendale married firstly Lady Margaret Anne, daughter of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

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, and his wife the Hon. Harriet, daughter of George Canning

George Canning

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, in 1856. They had three sons and three daughters. Their youngest son the Hon. Hubert Beaumont

Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)

Hubert George Beaumont , styled The Honourable from 1906, was a British politician.He was third the son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale and his wife Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh, daughter of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde. Beaumont was educated at Eton College and then at...

 was Liberal Member of Parliament for Eastbourne

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. After his first wife's death in 1888 Allendale married secondly Edith Althea, daughter of Lieutenant-General Henry Meade-Hamilton and widow of Major-General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, in 1891. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Allendale died in February 1907, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Wentworth

Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale

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, who also became a Liberal politician and was created Viscount Allendale

Viscount Allendale

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in 1911. Lady Allendale died in May 1927.