From 1914 to 1925, Beaumont was a member of
Derbyshire County Council. He began fighting Parliamentary seats at
Aldershot in the
1924 general election, and
Harrow in the
1929 general election. In the
1931 general election he was chosen for the Labour-held seat of
Peckham where the sitting MP
John Beckett had split from the Labour Party. With the vote split among three competing "Labour" candidates, however, Beaumont came fourth with only 1,350 votes. Beaumont was elected to
Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District Council in 1934. In March 1939, he was elected as the
Member of Parliament from
Batley and Morley in
a by-election, succeeding the late
Willie Brooke.
Parliament Although remaining a backbencher, his knowledge of agriculture gained from working for the Co-op did win for Beaumont an appointment to the Luxmoore Commission on Agricultural Education in 1943. He served
Tom Williams (Labour junior Minister for Agriculture in the Coalition government) as his
parliamentary private secretary from 1940. Following re-election in the
1945 general election, Beaumont was appointed as Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (the second Deputy Speaker). While presiding over a debate in the House on 21 September 1948 Beaumont was taken seriously ill and he was forced to resign as Deputy Speaker; he died in a London hospital just over two months later. ==References==