Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood

Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood MC ( January 27, 1917 - April 6, 1989 ) was a British officer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Military career

Tufton Beamish's father was Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish (1874-1951), who sat from 1924 to 1932 and from 1936 to 1945 for Lewes in the British Parliament . The son received his education at Stowe Boarding School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . In 1937 he was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers . The following year he served in Cairo and Palestine , developing a lifelong interest in the Arabs of the region. After the outbreak of World War II , he was transferred to France as a company commander in the British Expeditionary Force . He was injured while retreating to Dunkirk .

Beamish was transferred to the Far East in 1941 and was operating in Singapore when it was successfully attacked by the Imperial Japanese Army . He and seven other comrades escaped capture by escaping in a rowboat. The men rowed to Sumatra , but by the time they got there the island had also been conquered by the Japanese, and they drove on to Ceylon , where they would arrive safely. Beamisch then worked as an intelligence officer in India before he was transferred to the 8th Army in North Africa in 1943 and took part in the invasion of Italy . In 1945 he retired from the army with the rank of captain .

Political activities

In 1945 Tufton Beamish's father retired from politics and the son was to take the seat for Lewes in the House of Commons . In 1945 he was elected to the House of Commons, where he remained until 1974 . From 1947 to 1953, Beamish was on the board of the 1922 Committee , an association of conservative backbenchers , and from 1965 to 1967 spokesman for the opposition on matters of defense. He did not seek ministerial office and rejected such an offer. Beamish was a supporter of the European idea and its promotion by a strong European economic community . From 1971 to 1976 he was a member of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe . He was a severe critic of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe, as he was in his book Must Night Fall? from 1950.

In 1970, Beamish published the book Half Marx , in which he warned of the rise of the extreme left in the Labor Party . He also published a well-known book about the Battle of Lewes in 1264 between King Henry III. and Simon de Montfort . But his main interest was nature conservation. He was an active member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and from 1978 a member of the Nature Conservancy Council . He campaigned for a bill to protect birds, which was adopted in 1954 and expanded in 1964 and 1967. As a member of the House of Lords , he fought for the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 .

Tufton Beamish was married twice and had two daughters from their first marriage. His daughter Claudia Beamish has been a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Scottish Labor Party since 2007 . His uncle Henry Hamilton Beamish was the founder of the fascist movement The Britons and became known as the main propagator of the Madagascar plan.

Beamish was the model for the character Sir Bufton Tufton in the British satirical magazine Private Eye .

Honors

In 1974, Tufton Beamish was promoted to Life Peer class with the title Baron Chelwood, of Lewes in the County of East Sussex .

• Knight Bachelor (1961)
• Military Cross (1940)
• Mentioned in Despatches (July 19, 1945)
• Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1944)
• Order of Polonia Restituta
• Order of the Phoenix (Greece, 1949)
• Cedar Order (Lebanon, 1969)
• Honorary Freeman (Lewes, 1970)

Trivia

2012 was the 90-year-old widow of Lord Chelwood, Lady Pia Chelwood, by her longtime gardener to 25,000 pounds sued for pain and suffering, as it by working with lawn mower, electric saw and other noisy equipment from 1981 to 2000 then on her country estate Chelworth House deaf has become. The lawsuit was dismissed.

Publications

• Must night fall? A study of Marxism in Poland, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. 1950
• The Political Notions of the Member for Lewes . 1952
• Battle royal: a new account of Simon de Montfort's struggle against King Henry III. 1965
• Helped Marx . 1970
• With Norman St. John-Stevas: Sovereignty: substance or shadow . 1971
• Lord Chelwood of Lewes: "Modest Détente but Limited Wars". In: Conspectus of History 1.2 (1975): S 1-12.
• With Guy Hadley: The Kremlin's dilemma: the struggle for human rights in Eastern Europe . 1976

Web links

• Biography of Tufton Beamish on nationalarchives.gov.uk
• Tufton Beamish at Hansard (English)
• Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42231, HMSO, London, December 27, 1960, p. 8889 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
2. ↑ Baroness defeats gardener over lawn-mowing compensation claim on thisissussex.co.uk v. December 21, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.