William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont, (1873–1956)^[1] was a British journalist, author, and lecturer. Beaumont was a staff writer for the Daily Mail^[1] and eventually became editor of the Bystander in 1903^[2][3] and then The Graphic in 1932.^[4]

Beaumont was an eccentric with several unusual beliefs, many of which were linked to British Israelism. His astronomical speculations were later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works. According to Frank Joseph: "Beaumont’s work was taken over entirely by Immanuel Velikovsky in his famous Worlds in Collision (1950), which elaborated on the possibility of a celestial impact as responsible for the sudden extinction of a pre-Flood civilization."^[5]

Opinions

Among Beaumont's propositions were:

• catastrophic climate changes were the results of the action of asteroids on the earth.
• The Egyptian dynasties up to the 13th century BC ruled in South Wales.
• Jerusalem was originally located in Edinburgh.
• The works of Shakespeare were written by Francis Bacon.
• Francis Bacon was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I.
• There is a Zionist plot to undermine the British Empire.
• Part of this plot was disinformation disseminated by means of the Bible, which concealed the fact that the Holy Lands were in Britain, not in Palestine.
• The British Isles were Atlantis.
• Jesus was born in Glastonbury, and his life played out in Somerset.

Works

• The Riddle of the Earth, Chapman & Hall, London (or Brentano's, New York), 1925, OCLC 1517479
• The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts, Rider & Co., London, 1932, OCLC 8997586
• The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain, Rider & Co., London, 1946 (Kessinger Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 1564599000)
• Britain, the Key to World History, Rider & Co., London, 1947 ^[6]
• The Private Life of the Virgin Queen, self-published, 1947, OCLC 601691
• A Rebel in Fleet Street, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1948 (or 1944) (his autobiography)
• After Atlantis: the Greatest Story Never Told (unpublished; referenced in Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions, John Michell, 2002, ISBN 1579122280, pp. 136-143)^[1]

(see WorldCat: Comyns Beaumont)

See also

• Michael Tsarion: Inspired by Beaumont's works and quoted extensively throughout Tsarion's work.
• "Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions", John Michell, (1984), Thames & Hudson, ISBN:0-15-127358-8

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Cambridge Conference Correspondance: WILLIAM COMYNS BEAUMONT (1873 - 1956) BRITAIN'S MOST ECCENTRIC AND LEAST KNOWN COSMIC HERETIC, Benny J Peiser, October 17, 1997
2. ^ Churchill College Archives: The Churchill Papers: May 1930 - Jan 1931 correspondance
3. ^ Galactic Central Publications: Magazine Issues
4. ^ Time Magazine: Eight Less One, August 15, 1932
5. ^ The Atlantis Encyclopedia, Frank Joseph, New Page Books, 2005, p.27, ISBN 1-56414-795-9
6. ^ Reviewed in The Scotsman: The Grail, Jesus's children and Stone Age lasers: Scotland's madder myths - Scotland is the Lost City of Atlantis, Diane Maclean, The Scotsman, April 15, 2005

• http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04v.htm
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• http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc101797

External links

• Find-A-Grave: William Comyns Beaumont notes birth/death dates of 1879-1955