Charles Gabriel Beale JP (10 May 1843 – 1 September 1912), third son of William John Beale, was an English solicitor, politician and ornithologist, and was four times

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Biography

Beale lived at Maple Bank,

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, Birmingham and Bryntirion, Dolgelly, Wales. He was a member of Beale and Co. of London and Birmingham, solicitors to the

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, a director of the London City and Midland Bank, and chairman of the

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. He served as

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of the

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, and as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1897, 1898 and 1899, returning to the post in 1905 following the sudden death of the incumbent,

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. He was

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in 1907. In 1911 he was appointed a member of the Railway Inquiry Commission. He died on 1 September 1912.

Family

Beale married Alice Kenrick (1845–1940), daughter of Timothy Kenrick and Maria Paget, on 7 August 1868. They had four children, Hubert Kenrick, Edith Mary, Edmund Phipson and Norah who married Wilfred Byng Kenrick. Charles's elder brothers were the Liberal MP,

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and James, who commissioned

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to design Standen, West Sussex, now in the ownership of the

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