Daniel Augustus Beaufort
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October 1, 1739 East Barnet, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1821 (aged 81–82) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
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| Spouse(s) | Mary Waller (m. 1770–1821) |
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Daniel Augustus Beaufort LL.D. (1 October 1739 – 1821), was an English Anglican priest and geographer, and he was rector of Navan, County Meath, Ireland, from 1765 to 1818. Beaufort is remembered for his 1792 map of Ireland.
The father (1700–1788) was a French Protestant refugee, who became pastor of the Huguenot church in Spitalfields, London in 1728, and of that in Parliament Street, Bishopsgate, in 1729. He entered the Church of England in 1731. He married Esther Gougeon in London, 11 June 1738, and was rector of East Barnet from 1739 to 1743.
Taking his family with him to accompany Lord Harrington to Ireland, the father became rector of Navan in 1747. He was provost and archdeacon of Tuam from 1753 to 1758. He was rector of Clonenagh from 1758 until his death thirty years later. In 1788, he published in English, A Short Account of the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome, divested of all Controversy. His brother, Louis de Beaufort, published (in 1738) a work on the uncertainty of Roman history, supposed to have given some suggestions to Niebuhr.
Daniel Augustus was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was elected a scholar in 1757. He became B.A. in 1759, M.A. in 1764, and LL.D. (honoris causa) in 1789. He was ordained by the Bishop of Salisbury, and, in succession to his father, was rector of Navan, co. Meath, from 1765 to 1818.
In 1790 he was presented by the Right Hon. John Foster to the vicarage of Collon, co. Louth. He afterwards built the church at Collon, where he remained until his death in 1821. He was successively collated to the prebendal stalls of Kilconnell, in the diocese of Clonfert, (3 October 1818), and of Mayne, in the diocese of Ossory (20 April 1820).
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