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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 later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works. 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• After Atlantis: the Greatest Story Never Told (unpublished)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. Churchill College Archives: The Churchill Papers: May 1930 - Jan 1931 correspondance
2. Galactic Central Publications: Magazine Issues
3. 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

Links

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

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