Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark

Christopher Beaumont
Seigneur of Sark
Assumed office
3 July 2016
Preceded by Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark
Personal details
Born Christopher Beaumont
1957
Sark
Children Hugh Beaumont
Parents Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark and Diana La Trobe-Bateman
Occupation Army officer
Christopher Beaumont
Born Sark
Nationality Sark
Occupation Army officer
Known for Seigneur of Sark

Christopher Beaumont is the present Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands and a major.[1]

He succeeded as Seigneur on 3 July 2016, when his father Michael Beaumont died.[1][2]

On 5 July 2016 the Sark Newspaper published an article that listed reasons Sark residents should have doubts about what the Seigneury of the 23rd Seigneur held in store for them.[3]

The Sark Newspaper reported Sark residents could not know whether Beaumont would re-occupy the Seigneury, the traditional residence of the Seigneur, even though it is a matter of public record that the elderly former Seigneur had moved out as it was unsuited to someone in frail health, and he and his wife had moved to a cottage better suited to their continued care.[3]

In an interview with the BBC, on 15 July 2016, Beaumont defended the Sark Political structure.[4] He defended the Island's legislature, the Chief Pleas, saying: "There's a perfectly good, working Chief Pleas and it gets my full support." Constitutional reforms, in 2008, which had the approval of his father the 22nd Seigneur, devolved some of the feudal authority from the Seigneur to the legislature.

In 2009, after ill-health triggered Beaumont's parents to move from the Seigneurie, a building with 17 staircases, to a smaller cottage on the estate, better suited to aging residents, they arranged for David Synnott and his wife to live in the Seigneurie, for ten years, in return for making key renovations.[5]

Beaumont did return to the Island after his father's death.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Michael Beaumont: Tributes paid to the Seigneur of Sark". BBC News. 2016-07-04. His son, Maj Christopher Beaumont, has inherited the title from his father and will become the 23rd Seigneur.
  2. ↑ "New Seigneur to arrive in Sark". ITV News. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Who is the man who has inherited the most powerful position in Sark?" (PDF). Sark Newspaper. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-12-12. An impressive CV of the new Seigneur's career can be found on https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christopher-beaumontb2a5907. A sparsely populated https://www.facebook.com/christopher.beaumont.39 provides a little more information but beyond this there is very little to be found in the public domain on Major Beaumont. Keen observers suggest that he is a man who will not be swayed by past convention.
  4. ↑ "Seigneur 'disappointed' at criticism of Sark government". BBC News. 2016-07-15. His son has said he is fully supportive of Sark's government, Chief Pleas.
  5. ↑ Lauren Collins (2012-10-29). "Sark Spring: A feudal feud in the Channel Islands". New Yorker magazine. Retrieved 2016-12-12. One night, Susan and David Synnott, an expatriate couple near their sixties, invited me to dinner at the Seigneurie, where Beaumont has allowed them to live, free of charge for ten years, in exchange for undertaking renovations.
  6. ↑ Buenaventura Hector (2016-08-12). "L'insòlit cas de l'illa de Sark" [The strange case of the island of Sark] (in Catalan). Ara magazine. Retrieved 2016-12-12. I no ens oblidem que Sark és un estat en si mateix, l’últim que queda del ducat de Normandia. Enmig de l’illa hi tenimla Seigneurie, una esplèndida mansió amb uns fastuosos jardins que serveix de residència habitual del senyor (o dama) de Sark i la seva dinastia (des de fa uns mesos, Christopher Beaumont, el vint-i-tresè senyor de Sark). El senyor, juntament amb el senescal i els cheurs pliaids (els terratinents que formen el Parlament) són la màxima autoritat de l’illa.
Preceded by
Michael Beaumont		 Seigneur of Sark
2016–present		 Incumbent
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