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William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont, (1873–1956) was a British eccentric with several unusual beliefs, many of which were later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works. Beaumont was a staff writer for the Daily Mail who eventually became editor of The Bystander in 1903 and then The Graphic in 1932.

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, 1925
• The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts, Rider & Co., London, 1932
• The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain, Rider & Co., London, 1946
• Britain the Key to World History, Rider & Co., London, 1947
• A Rebel in Fleet Street, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1948 (his autobiography)
• The Private Life of the Virgin Queen
• After Atlantis: the Greatest Story Never Told (unpublished)

References

1. Galactic Central Publications: Magazine Issues
2. Time Magazine: Eight Less One, August 15, 1932

• http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04v.htm
• http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04w.htm
• http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc101797.html

• 1873 births
• 1956 deaths
• Occultists
• Conspiracy theorists