Born:

16??

Died:

1724

A linen-merchant from Trim, praised by Swift as 'my oracle for public affairs in the country'. Beaumont is described in Swift's poem 'On the little house by the Churchyard at Castlenock'.

Variously described as a poet and mathematical speculator, Beaumont received an Irish government reward of �200 for his Mathematical Sleaing-Tables: or, the Great and Only Mistery of Weaving Linnen-Cloth Explain�d (Dublin, 1712). From 1715, his last years were marked by mental illness and financial troubles. Although lent money by Swift on several occasions, Beaumont became bankrupt in 1718 and committed suicide around 1724.