Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale

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Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale KG CB OBE MC DL JP (6 August 189016 December 1956) was a British peer.

Allendale was the son of the 1st Viscount Allendale and was educated at Eton and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1912. He was commissioned into the Territorial Force in 1912 and transferred to the 2nd Life Guards in 1913. He fought in the First World War, serving with the Guards Machine Gun Regiment, and rose the rank of Captain in 1915. From 1918 to 1919 he was an Acting Major while commanding a company. After the war, he married Violet Seely (the daughter of Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet) on 20 July 1921 at St Martin-in-the-Fields and they had six children:

In 1923, he succeeded to his father's title of Viscount Allendale and was a Lord in Waiting between 1931 and 1932 in Ramsay MacDonald's ministry. In 1951, Allendale was awarded an honorary doctorate of Civil Law from the University of Durham.

Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt
Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland
1949–1956
Succeeded by
The Duke of Northumberland
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Wentworth Beaumont
Viscount Allendale
1923–1956
Succeeded by
Wentworth Beaumont
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