Beaufort (surname)
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Beaufort is the name of a noble family of 14th and 15th-century England, descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
. For a list of individual Beauforts, see House of Beaufort.
Beaufort is also the surname of:
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster , KG was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault...
. For a list of individual Beauforts, see House of Beaufort.
Beaufort is also the surname of:
- Carel Godin de BeaufortCarel Godin de BeaufortJonkheer Karel Pieter Antoni Jan Hubertus Godin de Beaufort was a Dutch nobleman and motor racing driver from the Netherlands...
, Porsche Formula 1 Driver 1957 - 1964 - Francis BeaufortFrancis BeaufortRear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS was an Irish hydrographer and officer in Britain's Royal Navy...
(1774-1857), Irish hydrographer and naval officer, creator of the Beaufort scaleBeaufort scaleThe Beaufort Scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort Wind Force Scale.-History:...
, namesake of the Beaufort SeaBeaufort SeaThe Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort...
. - Jacques-Antoine BeaufortJacques-Antoine BeaufortJacques Antoine Beaufort was an 18th century academic French painter. Little is known of his early life but he had his first public exhibition at the Marseille Academy in 1756, where he taught drawing, and later at the Paris Salon...
] (1721-1784) French painter
See also
- Duke of Beaufort (England), a dukedom in the Peerage of England
- Duke of Beaufort (France), a title in French nobility