Beamish
Appearance
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Beamish may refer to:
People
[edit]- Alfred Beamish (1879–1944), English tennis player
- Charles Beamish (1908–1984), Irish rugby player and RAF pilot
- David Beamish (born 1952) British public servant
- Emma Beamish (born 1982), Irish cricketer
- Francis Beamish (1802-1868), Irish Whig and Liberal politician
- Geordie Beamish (born 1996), New Zealand athlete
- George Beamish (1905–1967), British air marshal and Irish rugby player
- Geraldine Beamish (1883–1972), English tennis player
- Harold Beamish (1896–1986), New Zealand flying ace of World War I
- Henry Hamilton Beamish (1873–1948), British antisemitic journalist and Rhodesian politician
- Kevan Jones, Baron Beamish (born 1964), British Labour politician
- Olive Beamish (1890–1978), Irish-born suffragette
- Richard J. Beamish (1869–1945), Pennsylvania lawyer, journalist, author, and public official
- Robert Beamish (1916–2001), Canadian physician and cardiologist
- Sally Beamish (born 1956), British composer
- Tufton Beamish (Royal Navy officer) (1874–1951), rear admiral in the Royal Navy and member of Parliament for Lewes
- Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood (1917–1989) son of the above; British Army officer and member of Parliament for Lewes
- Victor Beamish (1903–1942), RAF fighter pilot
- Beamish Murdoch (1800–1876), Canadian lawyer, historian and political figure in Nova Scotia
Fictional characters
[edit]- Chet Beamish, a character from the television series The Big Valley
- Dr. Beamish, a character from the film Dracula's Daughter
- Leonard Beamish, a character from the film Carry On Regardless
- Bert Beamish, Mrs. Beamish and Major Beamish, characters in The Ickabog by J. K. Rowling
- Wendy Beamish, a character from the film St. Elmo's Fire
Places
[edit]- Beamish, County Durham, a village in England
- Beamish Museum, an open-air museum
- Beamish Hall, a mid-18th-century country house near the town of Stanley, County Durham
Other uses
[edit]- Beamish, a nonsense word from the 1872 poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
- Beamish Stout, an Irish stout formerly brewed by Beamish and Crawford
See also
[edit]- The Adventures of Willy Beamish, a 1991 computer game