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5 unusual facts about Sir George Beaumont


Coleorton Hall

His son Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet rebuilt the old manor house in about 1804 to a design by architect George Dance the Younger.

Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

Some paintings by his own hand have entered the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester, while the rest remain in the Beaumont family collection.

The National Gallery opened to the public in May 1824 in Angerstein's former house on Pall Mall, and Beaumont's paintings entered its collection the following year.

Beaumont was educated at Eton College, where he was taught drawing by the landscape painter Alexander Cozens.

For their Welsh excursions they rented Benarth, a house near Conwy, where they were visited by Uvedale Price among others.


Bere Alston

Its MPs included Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet, Peter King, 1st Baron King and Josceline Percy.

Greta Hall

Greta Hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Sir George Beaumont, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 1802, Thomas De Quincey and John Ruskin.


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