Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood

Who was Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood?

Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood MC was a British Army officer and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Lewes.

During the Second World War, he served in France, Belgium, Malaya, India and Burma, North Africa and Italy. In 1940 he was awarded the Military Cross; was knighted in 1961 and upon his retirement from the House of Commons was created a life peer as Baron Chelwood, of Lewes in the County of East Sussex in May 1974.

Beamish's father was Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish who served in the Royal Navy until 1925 when he retired with the rank of Rear Admiral. He had followed his career in the Navy by entering politics and served as the member of Parliament for Lewes from 1924 until 1931 and again from 1936 until 1945.