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John Thomas Barber Beaumont

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1063: 311: 280: 1005: 45: 109: 338:. The Square was part of the Beaumont Estate, a housing development, and the Institution was on the north-west corner of the square. It was created for the welfare and entertainment of people in the neighbourhood. The opening was on 29 October 1840, with a 181:
decorated with lamps to celebrate her tactical victory over the royal divorce bill in 1820. He resisted a fraudulent claim made on the fire company in 1823 by Thomas Thurtell, and ultimately secured the committal of Thurtell and associates to
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while the corps fired at it from a distance of 150 yards. In 1835 the corps changed its name to Royal Victoria Rifle Club and then later became Queen Victoria's Rifles.
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written by John Augustus Barber Beaumont, son of Barber Beaumont, who had tried to help the remaining colonists.
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Reading Room at the People's Palace, 1890 magazine illustration. It was based on the Prior's Kitchen of
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A Brief Account of the Beaumont Trust, and its founder, J. T. B. Beaumont, etc by W. Spencer Beaumont
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In 1825 Beaumont fought against the Board of Stamps, which charged his company with defrauding the
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Beaumont, an investor in South America and supporter of its independence from colonial rule, knew
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In the longer term the Institution was one of the organisations leading up to the founding of
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on an adjacent site; it was opened in 1937. Part of the original construction survives as the
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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: historical essays in European thought and culture
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Brute New World: the rediscovery of Latin America in the early nineteenth century
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Insuring the Industrial Revolution: fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
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Beaumont established in 1806 the Provident Institution and Savings Bank in
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Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities
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A Brief Account of the Beaumont Trust, and its founder, J. T. B. Beaumont
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threatened to invade England, Beaumont raised a rifle corps named
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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society
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and the Provident Life insurance office. In 1816–8 he took on
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Annals, Anecdotes and Legends: a chronicle of life assurance
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Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London
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in a costly publicity war. Beaumont was a supporter of
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Clayton, Timothy; McConnell, Anita. "Alken family".
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Beaumont's descendants include the ruling family of
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An accomplished painter, Barber Beaumont focused on
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Belle assemblée: or, Court and fashionable magazine
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Beaumont's great-great-great grandson is 93:and was appointed miniature painter to the 266:In 1802 Beaumont published an illustrated 754:, The Library vol. 2 (1890), pp. 341–51; 120:, from a miniature by John Thomas Barber. 924:Beaumont Institution and People's Palace 661:Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890 535:"John Thomas Barber Beaumont, 1774-1841" 376:The Institution was administered by the 344:Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope 806:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 567:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 482: 221:United Provinces of the Río de la Plata 135:The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters 958:. King's Royal Rifle Corps Association 922:Archives in London and the M25 area, 711: 709: 599: 597: 595: 593: 369:congregation, and using a liturgy by 61:on 21 December 1774 in the parish of 7: 606:"Beaumont, John Thomas Barber"  529: 527: 525: 523: 521: 519: 517: 177:, and had the County Fire office in 85:. He had his works displayed at the 37:army officer, painter, author, and 910:The Former New Peoples Palace, Bow 445:. One of Beaumont's grandsons was 324:Beaumont Philosophical Institution 25: 1143:18th-century English male artists 1128:19th-century English male artists 294:In 1816 he published an essay on 173:in her long-running dispute with 1021:Dictionary of National Biography 1003: 612:Dictionary of National Biography 457:. Beaumont's great grandson was 427:Queen Mary, University of London 322:In 1839–40 Beaumont founded the 252:Society of Antiquaries of London 97:, the future king William IV of 803:Webb, R. K. "Harwood, Philip". 738:vol. 81, June 1822, pp. 491–3; 300:Essay on Criminal Jurisprudence 1064:Works by or about J. T. 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Index

New Philosophical Institution
British
philanthropist

St Marylebone
history painting
miniature painting
Royal Academy of Arts
London
Duke of Clarence
Great Britain
Henry Thomas Alken

David Collins
Anthony Cardon
Napoleon
The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters
Hyde Park
London
Covent Garden
County Fire Office
Thomas Bignold
Norwich Union
Caroline of Brunswick
George IV
Regent Street
Newgate Prison
John Thurtell
The Times
Bernardino Rivadavia

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