Beaumont, Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de [formerly Alfred Leopold Charles de Beaumont Klein] (1902–1972), fencer, was born at 26 Alexandra Drive, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 5 May 1902, the son of Louis Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont Klein (1849–1934) and his wife, Kathleen Mary O'Hagan (1876–1974).
Klein, a French academic and formerly a Jesuit priest, had been employed by the O'Hagan family to tutor their daughter. In 1913, fearing anti-German prejudice, he changed his name by deed poll to de Beaumont, his mother's maiden name.
Charles-Louis died, at home, 44 Montpelier Street, London, on 7 July 1972 from cancer, just before taking a British fencing team to another Olympics, which would have been his eighth as captain. He was buried at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and was survived by his second wife.
For nearly forty years Charles de Beaumont was the most important figure in British fencing and, in the words of Mary Glen Haig, his immediate successor as AFA president, 'did more for fencing than any one individual will ever be able to do again' (Gray, foreword). Sartorially elegant, always with a red rose in his buttonhole, his fencing socks topped in rings of red, white, and blue, his upper lip sporting a fine moustache, de Beaumont symbolized the fair-minded Englishman abroad for several generations of fencers worldwide.
Klein, a French academic and formerly a Jesuit priest, had been employed by the O'Hagan family to tutor their daughter. In 1913, fearing anti-German prejudice, he changed his name by deed poll to de Beaumont, his mother's maiden name.
Charles-Louis died, at home, 44 Montpelier Street, London, on 7 July 1972 from cancer, just before taking a British fencing team to another Olympics, which would have been his eighth as captain. He was buried at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and was survived by his second wife.
For nearly forty years Charles de Beaumont was the most important figure in British fencing and, in the words of Mary Glen Haig, his immediate successor as AFA president, 'did more for fencing than any one individual will ever be able to do again' (Gray, foreword). Sartorially elegant, always with a red rose in his buttonhole, his fencing socks topped in rings of red, white, and blue, his upper lip sporting a fine moustache, de Beaumont symbolized the fair-minded Englishman abroad for several generations of fencers worldwide.
Beaumont, Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de [formerly Alfred Leopold Charles de Beaumont Klein] (1902–1972), fencer, was born at 26 Alexandra Drive, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 5 May 1902, the son of Louis Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont Klein (1849–1934) and his wife, Kathleen Mary O'Hagan (1876–1974).
Klein, a French academic and formerly a Jesuit priest, had been employed by the O'Hagan family to tutor their daughter. In 1913, fearing anti-German prejudice, he changed his name by deed poll to de Beaumont, his mother's maiden name.
Charles-Louis died, at home, 44 Montpelier Street, London, on 7 July 1972 from cancer, just before taking a British fencing team to another Olympics, which would have been his eighth as captain. He was buried at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and was survived by his second wife.
For nearly forty years Charles de Beaumont was the most important figure in British fencing and, in the words of Mary Glen Haig, his immediate successor as AFA president, 'did more for fencing than any one individual will ever be able to do again' (Gray, foreword). Sartorially elegant, always with a red rose in his buttonhole, his fencing socks topped in rings of red, white, and blue, his upper lip sporting a fine moustache, de Beaumont symbolized the fair-minded Englishman abroad for several generations of fencers worldwide.
Klein, a French academic and formerly a Jesuit priest, had been employed by the O'Hagan family to tutor their daughter. In 1913, fearing anti-German prejudice, he changed his name by deed poll to de Beaumont, his mother's maiden name.
Charles-Louis died, at home, 44 Montpelier Street, London, on 7 July 1972 from cancer, just before taking a British fencing team to another Olympics, which would have been his eighth as captain. He was buried at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and was survived by his second wife.
For nearly forty years Charles de Beaumont was the most important figure in British fencing and, in the words of Mary Glen Haig, his immediate successor as AFA president, 'did more for fencing than any one individual will ever be able to do again' (Gray, foreword). Sartorially elegant, always with a red rose in his buttonhole, his fencing socks topped in rings of red, white, and blue, his upper lip sporting a fine moustache, de Beaumont symbolized the fair-minded Englishman abroad for several generations of fencers worldwide.
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