Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley

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Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (born November 22, 1928 , † April 9, 2008 in London ) was an Anglican clergyman and British politician. He most recently served as the first member of the Green Party of England and Wales Member of the British House of Lords (House of Lords).

Life

Timothy Beaumont grew up in a political family, both his father Michael Beaumont for the constituency Aylesbury as representative of the Conservative Party and his grandfathers, Hubert Beaumont as representative of the Radical Party for the constituency of Eastbourne, Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale as representative the Liberal Party for the constituencies of South Northumberside and later Tyneside and Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford as representative of the Liberal Party for the constituencies of Tyneside, Saffron Walden and most recently Rotherham, were members of various parties. His mother Faith Pease died early.

Timothy Beaumont attended Eton College and Gordonstoun School. He studied agricultural science at Christ Church College, Oxford University. There he became a member of the Bullingdon Club fraternity and later founded the Wagers Club fraternity . After graduating from Oxford, he moved to the Wescott House seminary in Cambridge. He was ordained a deacon in 1955 and a priest in 1956. In 1955 he married Mary Rose Wauchope, a cousin of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon , from the marriage had two sons and two daughters (Hubert, Alaric, Atalanta and Ariadne).

As an Anglican clergyman from 1955 to 1957 he was assistant chaplain at St. John's Cathedral in Kowloon and then until 1959 vicar at Christ Church in Kowloon Tong . Receiving a significant inheritance at the time, he decided to return to Great Britain and lived in Mayfair and later in Hampstead . Meanwhile, he was an honorary curator at St Stephen's Church in Rochester Row from 1960 to 1963 . From 1960 to 1965 he represented the Diocese of London in the General Synod of the Church of England . During church reform, he supported the Parish and People movement and published first the political weekly Time and Tide and later the church reform supporter Prism , which later appeared as New Christian and was then merged with American Christian Century . Since he could no longer reconcile his attitude and way of life with his duties as a priest, he resigned from the religious order in 1973.

In 1984 he reversed his decision and became clergyman in charge of St Philip and All Saints with St Luke at Kew in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark . He spent his retirement in Clapham from 1991 .

He died after a long illness in St Thomas' Hospital in London, leaving behind his wife, two daughters and a son.

Career

After a substantial donation to the Liberal Party , he became its honorary treasurer in 1962 and 1963. In 1967 he was the Liberals as Baron Beaumont of Whitley of Child's Hill in Greater London Life Peer , so a member of the British House of Lords. From 1967 to 1968 he was chairman of the Liberal Party and from 1969 to 1970 its managing director. In parliament he was the Liberals' spokesman for education and training until 1986. He was spokesman for the Liberals in the Council of Europe and from 1978 to 1980 coordinator of the British environmental organization Green Alliance . In the course of the merger of the Liberal Party with the Social Democrats ( SDP ) in 1988, he became a member of the Liberal Democrats , but switched to the Green Party of England and Wales in 1999 because of the Liberal Democrats ' support for free trade and became their spokesman for agriculture Ask.

In May 2006 he proposed a law "to protect the public from disturbance by loud music".

He supported the organization of the Greens to have a party spokesman (principal speaker) instead of a party chairman. He put it roughly as follows: in 60 years of politics he has only seen one good party leader .

Additional Services

Beaumont sponsored the UK's Press for Change lobby group, which advocates equality for transgender people. He was chairman of the Albany Trust from 1969 to 1971 and chairman of the Institute of Research into Mental and Multiple Handicap from 1971 to 1973 , president of the British Federation of Film Societies from 1973 to 1979 and a member of the leadership of the Church Action against Poverty movement . In 1980 he was chairman of the Exit organization , later the Voluntary Euthanasia Society or Dignity in Dying , which campaigns for a self-determined death.

He edited The Selective Ego as an abridged edition of James Agate 's 1976 diaries , and in 1972 the Liberal Cookbook . He wrote a column on food for the Illustrated London News from 1976 to 1980 and in 1997 his work The End of the Yellowbrick Road was published.

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  1. ^ The Rev Lord Beaumont of Whitley – Anglican minister who pursued his vocation in tandem with a political career in three parties , The Times , April 11, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008
  2. ^ The Rev Lord Beaumont of Whitley , The Daily Telegraph , April 11, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008
  3. ^ The London Gazette, Issue 44470, Page 13399, December 7, 1967 (PDF), accessed April 27, 2008
  4. ↑ "draw up a plan to prohibit piped music and the showing of television programs in the public areas of hospitals and on public transport; and to require the wearing of headphones by persons listening to music in the public areas of hospitals and on public transport. "(for example:" To protect the public from disturbances from loud music and to ban television programs in public spaces (such as hospitals and public transport)). Use of headphones should be mandatory "( Piped Music and Showing of Television Programs Bill , British Parliament)
  5. ↑ in 60 years in politics I have only known one good party leader ( Green Empowerment )

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SURNAME Beaumont, Timothy, Baron Beaumont of Whitley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaumont, Timothy Wentworth; Beaumont of Whitley, Timothy Beaumont Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Green Party MP, Member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1928
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2008
Place of death London