The Lord Beaumont of Whitley | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 6 December 1967 – 8 April 2008 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Timothy Wentworth Beaumont 22 November 1928 |
Died | 8 April 2008 | (aged 79)
Political party | Green Party of England and Wales |
Other political affiliations | Liberal Democrats (until 1999) |
Spouse |
Mary Rose Wauchope (m. 1955) |
Parent(s) | Michael Beaumont Faith Pease |
Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (22 November 1928 – 8 April 2008) was a British politician and an Anglican priest. He was politically active, successively, in the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party of England and Wales. A life peer since 1967, in 1999 he became the first member of either of the British Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom to represent the Green Party.[1][2]