Viscount Beaumont of Swords, in the County of Dublin, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created on 20 May 1622 for Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament

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 for Leicestershire

Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1604 to 1611 and High Sheriff of Leicestershire

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 in 1610. He had already been created a Baronet, of Cole Orton in the County of Leicester, in the Baronetage of England on 17 September 1619. The titles became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Viscount in 1702.

The first Viscount was the son of Sir Henry Beaumont, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1589, son of Nicholas Beaumont, MP for Leicestershire in the reign of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of England

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 and a descendant of John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont

John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont

John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont KG served in the Hundred Years' War against the partisans of Pope Clement VII.Beaumont was born in 1361 at the Duchy of Brabant to Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont and Margaret de Vere...

 (see Baron Beaumont

Baron Beaumont

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 for earlier history of the family).

Colonel the Honourable John Beaumont

John Beaumont (MP)

John Beaumont was an English soldier at the time of the Glorious Revolution and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1695....

, younger son of the second Viscount, was a politician and soldier involved in the Glorious revolution

Glorious Revolution

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Viscounts Beaumont of Swords (1622)

• Thomas Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont of Swords (d. 1625)
• Sapcote Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont of Swords (1614–1658)
• Thomas Beaumont, 3rd Viscount Beaumont of Swords (1634–1702)