Francis Bernard Beamish (5 April 1802 – 1 February 1868)[1][2] was an Irish Whig and Liberal politician.[3][4][5]

Francis Beamish
Member of Parliament
for Cork City
In office
20 August 1853 – 12 July 1865
Preceded byFrancis Murphy
William Trant Fagan
Succeeded byNicholas Daniel Murphy
John Maguire
In office
11 August 1837 – 5 July 1841
Serving with Daniel Callaghan
Preceded byHerbert Baldwin
Daniel Callaghan
Succeeded byDaniel Callaghan
Francis Murphy
Personal details
Born5 April 1802
Died1 February 1868(1868-02-01) (aged 65)
NationalityIrish
Political partyLiberal/Whig

Beamish was the son of William Beamish and Anne Jane Margaret (née Delacour) and, in 1837, married Catherine Savery de Lisle de Courcy, daughter of Michael de Courcy and Catherine de Lisle. They had at least one child: Francis Bernard Servington Beamish, who was born in 1839.[2]

A Freeman of Cork in 1827, Beamish was made Mayor of Cork in 1843, and High Sheriff of the City of Cork in 1852, and was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.[2]

Beamish was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Cork City at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1841, when he did not stand for re-election. He returned to the seat, again as a Whig, at a by-election in 1853—caused by the appointment of Francis Murphy as a Commissioner of Insolvency—and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until 1865, when he did not seek re-election.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Rayment, Leigh (13 September 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d Lundy, Darryl (24 September 2018). "Francis Bernard Beamish". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 264. ISBN 0901714127.
  4. ^ Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 220–221. Retrieved 23 September 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Aris's Birmingham Gazette". 29 August 1853. p. 1. Retrieved 24 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cork City
18371841
With: Daniel Callaghan
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cork City
18531865
With: Nicholas Daniel Murphy (Feb. 1865Jul. 1865)
Francis Lyons (Jun. 1859Feb. 1865)
William Trant Fagan (1853Jun. 1859)
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by
Thomas Lyons
Mayor of Cork
1843
Succeeded by