Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Baronet (5 May 1897 – 25 August 1976) was a British businessman and

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and Conservative Party politician. Beauchamp was the son of the

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politician and Lloyd's chairman Sir Edward Beauchamp, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Betty Campbell Beauchamp (''née'' Woods), an American from

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, Ohio. Educated at

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, he served in the Life Guards during the

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, but did not serve overseas. His elder brother, Edward Archibald Beauchamp, was killed in the war and Brograve therefore succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1925. Sir Brograve died on 25 August 1976 at the age of 79, and the title became extinct.

Political career

At the 1922 general election, Beauchamp stood as a National Liberal candidate for the Lowestoft division of

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. His father had just stepped down as the constituency's MP, and Brograve hoped to win the seat, but lost heavily. He did not stand again until the 1931 general election, when he was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastern division of

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. He was re-elected in

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, and held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1945 general election. While in Parliament, he held a number of Parliamentary Private Secretary appointments, including in 1940 to

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, Minister for Transport, and in 1942–43 to Richard Law, Parliamentary

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Family

On 8 October 1923, Beauchamp married Lady Evelyn Leonora Almina Herbert, daughter of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon at

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. They had one child, Patricia Evelyn Beauchamp (11 July 1925 – 7 October 2014).Burke's Peerage 1970, page 206 Sir Brograve and Lady Evelyn are buried beside each other in

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in South West London. In November 1922, before her marriage, Lady Evelyn and her father had been among the first people in modern times to enter the

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in Egypt. In the spring of 1923 Brograve and his parents visited Egypt, and were given a guided tour of Tutankhamun's tomb by the archaeologist

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. Outside Parliament Beauchamp worked as a businessman, and in 1937 he established a company named '' Pyrotenax'', which produced a heat-resistant copper cable originally developed in France. During the

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the company's product was used extensively in military equipment. ''Pyrotenax'' floated on the stock exchange in 1954.

References

External links

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Portraits of Sir Brograve Beauchamp
held by the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beauchamp, Brograve 1897 births 1976 deaths National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Brograve People educated at Eton College Burials at Putney Vale Cemetery