Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale

Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, PC, JP, DL (2 December 1860 – 12 December 1923) was a British politician and peer.

Allendale was born at Bywell Hall, Northumberland, the son of the 1st Baron Allendale and was baptised in London. He attended Eton and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with an MA in 1888. On 12 November 1889, he married Lady Alexandrina Vane-Tempest, a daughter of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry and they had six children:

Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale (6 August 1890 – 16 December 1956)
Hon. Margaret Helen Beaumont (13 November 1892 – 10 June 1958), married the 5th Earl Fortescue and had issue.
Hon. Aline Mary de Burgh Beaumont (23 April 1895 – 15 April 1967)
Hon. Diane Beaumont (1896 – 31 January 1897)
Hon. Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont (12 February 1901 – 18 September 1977)
Hon. Agatha Violet Beaumont (26 December 1903 – 15 January 1994)

Allendale was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham from 1895 to 1907 and succeeded to his father's title of Baron Allendale on the latter's death in 1907. On 2 July 1911 he was created Viscount Allendale and from that year to 1916 he was a Lord in Waiting in Asquith's ministry. Allendale died in 1923, aged 63 in London and was buried in the grounds of Bretton Hall, near Wakefield.

Political offices
Preceded by Hon. Frederick Glyn	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1905–1907	Succeeded by Sir John Fuller, Bt
Preceded by The Earl Waldegrave	Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1908–1911	Succeeded by The Earl of Craven
Preceded by The Lord Hamilton of Dalzell	Lord-in-Waiting 1911–1916	Succeeded by New government
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Miles MacInnes	Members of Parliament for Hexham 1895–1907	Succeeded by Richard Durning Holt
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Viscount Allendale 1907–1923	Succeeded by Wentworth Beaumont
Preceded by Wentworth Beaumont	Baron Allendale 1911–1923	Succeeded by Wentworth Beaumont