10 Facts About Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp

Sir Montagu Harry Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet was a British Anglican Christian missionary.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was one of the Cambridge Seven, students from Cambridge University, who in 1885 decided to become missionaries in China.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp served with the China Inland Mission during the late Qing dynasty in western China.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was evacuated from China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, but was back in China again from 1902 to 1911.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was Principal Chaplain of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in World War I, serving in Egypt and Greece, and he was mentioned in dispatches in 1916.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was senior chaplain Chaplain to the Forces of the North Russian Expeditionary Force in Murmansk in northern Russia in 1919, and appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Forces in 1921.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp succeeded in the Proctor-Beauchamp baronetcy in 1915 when his elder brother Horace was killed in the First World War.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp died in Langzhong in October 1939, aged 79, buried in the cemetery of St John's Cathedral, Langzhong.

Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp was succeeded in his title by his third but eldest surviving son, Ivor.