Baron Trevor Beaumont

Born: 24 Dec 1905, Durban, Natal, South Africa
Marriage (1): Hope Marguerite Wood on 18 Sep 1933
Died: 6 Aug 1983, Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa aged 77

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Hope Marguerite Wood

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://www.identitynumber.org/research/death-records-results.php?id=3205185

And

http://www.africanangler.com/sb_article.asp?id=774

bullet Death Notes:

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2149015250

And

http://www.identitynumber.org/research/death-records-results.php?id=3205185
He died of heart failure.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. Research notes from MHB [9].

• Web Based Info. Copy of ctn_estates06.xls in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. Copy of his father - Baron William Richard Beaumont's Death Notice # 12402/1927 Filed on 4 Jun 1927 in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. A CONTAGIOUS BEQUEST '97 The Trevor Beaumont Story '97 by Johan Smal

IT is well known that some individuals lead, others follow and some just meander along. Some are even capable of opening doors through walls where none exist. As a cartoonist, author, entrepreneur, oil worker, apple farmer, director, patriarch and fanatical angler, Baron Trevor Beaumont was such a person.

Born in Durban on 24th December 1905, he was the only son of Baron William Richard Beaumont, eldest son of Sir William Beaumont, then the most senior judge in Natal. Trevor's mother, Claire Alice, was the eldest daughter of Alfred Platt, a big sugar cane farmer and mill owner at Isipingo, one of the first mills of its kind in Natal which was started by his father, an 1820 settler.

In a draft biography called "My life" '97 which, sadly, was never completed '97 Trevor wrote: "At the age of four we moved to Isipingo Beach, 12 miles south of Durban, to a house overlooking the sea. In those days it was totally unspoilt with good bathing, fishing and hunting, and very few people around. From the age of six I can remember more or less the details of my life, and what a wonderful life it has been ...

"A father (who was like an elder brother) plus two grandfathers who were great teachers of the simple, good life. At six, with dad's help, I made my first fishing rod '97 what a joy! Also, I was learning to dive for crayfish under the kind guidance of Mr Bouseth who was a wizard at it '97 never less than a sack full!

"He also taught me how to get various other baits such as mussel worms, octopus, black mussels, etc. Ever since then fishing has been my greatest hobby, with my father '97 a master at the sport '97 my constant teacher."

POST SCHOOL
After completing school at Maritzburg College, as an 18-year-old in 1925 Trevor left Natal for Trinidad and the USA to pursue a career in the oil production business. He married Hope Marguerite Wood in 1928 and they had three children, Roger, Raoul and Suzanne.

After his return in 1943, he bought the fruit farm Beaulieu near Elgin, in the heart of the Cape's apple-growing highlands. During the1960s he sold Beaulieu and bought Valley Green, also near Elgin. As a marketing imperative, Trevor became a member of the Elgin Fruit Packers Cooperative. In 1962 he was elected as a director, serving with another fishing legend, Jimmy Rawbone-Viljoen, owner of Oak Valley Estates. (See SKI-BOAT November/December 2010 and January/February 2011 '97 "From Small Acorns").

Driven by an incurable craze, Trevor's angling endeavours took him all over the world, rewarding him with extensive experience and know-how to catch anything willing to take bait. He also succeeded in moulding an inclusive network of close friends and colleagues. Some were very influential and well placed in the rapidly expanding gamefisheries business worldwide, which suited Trevor's specific quests at the time.

One was Colonel John K Howard of the marine laboratory, University of Miami in the USA. During the latter part of 1954 he visited South Africa to conduct a study on the billfish family, Istiophoridae, by then already the most sought-after gamefish in the world. The objective was to assist the small group of anglers to determine whether establishing an organised gamefishery in South Africa was in fact feasible. Natal's billfish, especially, and the tuna in the Cape were to gain largely from the visit.

http://www.africanangler.com/sb_article.asp?id=774

• Occupation. Oil Drilling Superintendent in Trinidad,B.W.I.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1959/32063_219063-00681/5223?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dbaron%2btrevor%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln%3dbeaumont%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d0%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d5223%26recoff%3d8%2b9%2b10%26db%3dFLAlienArrival%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d2&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

• General Comment. Copy of his mother, Clara Augusta Beaumont's, Death Notice dated 18 October 1971 in RAB's possession. He is recorded as a major.

• General Comment. Copy of his grandmother, Lady Alice Beaumont's, death notice dated 28 April 1945 in RAB's possesion. He is recorded as a major child of the deceased Baron Richard William Beaumont.

Baron married Hope Marguerite Wood on 18 Sep 1933. (Hope Marguerite Wood was born on 24 Feb 1915 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa and died on 27 Jun 2005 in Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• General Comment. Based on Baron Raoul Trevor's birthday 27 Mar 1937. Hope would have been around 21 years of age.

• Web Based Info. http://www.africanangler.com/sb_article.asp?id=774
says they were married in 1928 which is impossible as she would have been 13.

And

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1518/30807_A001030-00110/7380749?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dbaron%2btrevor%26gsfn_x%3dNIC%26gsln%3dbeaumont%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d0%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d7380749%26db%3dBT26%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d8&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord
They were married before Oct 1933 as they are together as husband and wife.

And

http://www.identitynumber.org/research/marriage-transcriptions-results1.php?id=16125776

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