20 Facts About Tim Beaumont

Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley was a British politician and an Anglican priest.

Tim Beaumont was politically active, successively, in the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party of England and Wales.

Tim Beaumont graduated in 1952 with a fourth-class Bachelor of Arts degree: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree.

Tim Beaumont married Mary Rose Wauchope in 1955, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.

Tim Beaumont was ordained as a deacon in 1955 and as a priest in 1956.

Tim Beaumont became an Anglican priest in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Tim Beaumont served as assistant chaplain at St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957 and then was vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, until 1959.

Tim Beaumont represented the Diocese of London in the Church Assembly from 1960 to 1965.

Tim Beaumont became involved in church reform, supporting the Parish and People movement.

Tim Beaumont was owner of the political weekly Time and Tide and then the church reform magazine Prism.

Tim Beaumont was made a Liberal Life peer as Baron Beaumont of Whitley, of Child's Hill in Greater London, in 1967.

Tim Beaumont served as leader of the Liberals in the Council of Europe.

Tim Beaumont was co-ordinator of the Green Alliance from 1978 to 1980.

Tim Beaumont joined the Liberal Democrats, but, objecting to their support for free trade, he moved to the Green Party in 1999, and became the Green Party spokesman on agriculture.

Tim Beaumont stood for election to Lambeth Council for the Green Party in Clapham Common ward in 2006.

Tim Beaumont was a Eurosceptic, and for many years he was a vice-president of the cross-party Campaign for an Independent Britain, which campaigned against British membership of the European Union.

Tim Beaumont was a patron of transgender equality campaign group Press for Change.

Tim Beaumont was chairman of the Albany Trust between 1969 and 1971, chairman of the Institute of Research into Mental and Multiple Handicap between 1971 and 1973, president of the British Federation of Film Societies between 1973 and 1979, and a member of the executive of Church Action on Poverty.

Tim Beaumont edited The Selective Ego, an abridged volume of the diaries of James Agate, published in 1976, and a Liberal Cookbook, published in 1972.

Tim Beaumont wrote a food column for the Illustrated London News from 1976 to 1980, and wrote the book The End of the Yellowbrick Road, published in 1997.