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

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."

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.

{Note, only the first of these opinions can be associated with Veliekovsky. Other researchers have to come to this conclusion as well. Bullet-point one may be the only above referenced opinion of Beaumont that has significant scientific support at this time. The citation above is from Joseph's book about the ancient mythic story of Atlantis, and is a huge misrepresentation of Veliekovsky's work. Veliekovsky certainly had his flaws, but he never espoused any of the other 8 opinions of Beaumont given here. Apparently Frank Joseph's opinions are as eccentric as those of Beaumont.}

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
• 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)

(see WorldCat: Comyns Beaumont)

Further reading

• "Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions", John Michell, (1984), Thames & Hudson, ISBN:0-15-127358-8

References

1. ^ 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
• http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04w.htm
• http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc101797.html

External links

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

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• 1873 births
• 1956 deaths
• Daily Mail journalists
• Occultists
• Conspiracy theorists
• British newspaper editors
• British magazine editors