Thomas Beaumont (died 1614)

Sir Thomas Beaumont (1576 - 1614) was an English Member of Parliament for Leicester. His father, Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton was also an MP and his mother, Anne was the daughter of William Saunders of Welford, Northants. Thomas' elder brother Henry Beaumont preceded him as MP for Leicester. Thomas Beaumont was knighted in 1603.

Thomas Beaumont married Katherine Farnham, daughter of Thomas Farnham (MP) of Stoughton Grange. They produced ten children; three sons (Henry, Farnham, and Thomas) and seven daughters (Elizabeth, Frances, Anne, Elinor, Isabel, Jane, Mary). Their son Henry also became an MP for Leicester, and Sir Henry's son Thomas became the first of the Beaumont Baronets. Their daughter Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond was created Baroness (Scotland) in her own right by Charles I of England and her daughter (also named Elizabeth) married Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis. Their eldest daughter Frances married Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna.

Upon Beaumont's death at the age of 38, the composer Thomas Vautor composed an elegiac madrigal in his honor.

Upon his wife's death in 1621, the eldest daughter Elizabeth memorialized the family in a St Botolph Aldersgate Ward monument as follows:

1. Frances Beaumont, 2d Daughter, married to Sir Woolston Dyxy, of the County of Leicester, Knight.

2. Farnham Beaumont, 2d Sonne, married Luce Dawes, of Dawson in the County of Leicester.

3. Sir Henry Beaumont, Knight, eldest Sonne, married Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir William Turpin, of Knaptoft, in the County of Leicester, Knight.

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