Lewis Beaumont
Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
Naval career
Beaumont joined the Royal Navy as a boy in 1860 and was engaged in operations in Malaya by 1875. Between 1875 and 1876 he took part as senior lieutenant in the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares on, an attempt to reach the North Pole and to explore the northwest coast of Greenland. Beaumont led a dogsled party that reached Sherard Osborn Fjord in May 1876 and left a cairn at Repulse Harbour.He was given command of in 1893, before becoming Director of Naval Intelligence in 1895.
He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1899 and Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station in 1900. During his time in Australia, he had as his flagship, and he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George on the occasion of the visit to Australia of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. He was promoted to vice-admiral on 9 September 1902, and left Australia in January 1903 returning to the United Kingdom via New Zealand and the United States.
On his return, he took up the position of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, serving as such until 1908. He was promoted to admiral in 1906. He was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1911. He retired in 1912.
Beaumont was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1904 Birthday Honours and promoted to Knight Grand Cross in the 1911 Coronation Honours.