Ivor Beaumont ARCA, LRIBA, FRSA, FIBD
Born 1886
Died 1968
Active: 1919 - 1951
Country of birth and death: England
Headmaster
Born Yorkshire. Studied at Huddersfield College of Art and then the Royal College of Art. Beaumont worked as an Art Master and Lecturer in Design at the Building Trade School, London between 1915-19. He became headmaster of Belfast School of Art in 1919 and remained there until 1951. His works include the war memorial at Longwood, Huddersfield which was unveiled before 1920. Beaumont returned to Huddersfield in 1957, and died in 1968.
There are details of the war memorial at: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.29298/fromUkniwmSearch/1 (accessed 16 July 2012). This record includes information supplied by Geoff Turner.
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland
1925 (Presumed)
Ulster Committee.
Principal of Belfast School of Art
1919 - 1951
Longest serving Headmaster in the school's history.
Student at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
Vice-president of Ulster Arts Club
1945
Personal and Professional Connections
Argued with Alexander Pender Crichton
1931
Crichton (who fully embraced Modernism) was repremanded by Beaumont (who thought it 'inappropriate') for an Art Deco poster for school ball. May have contributed to Crichton's resignation.
Feud with Newton Herbert Penprase
Tension between Headmaster and Teacher said to be long running resulting in a physical altercation in January 1932. Penprase was suspended, later apologised and was reinstated however the two never reconciled.
Friends with John Luke
Friends with George Frederick Morris Harding
Citing this record
'Ivor Beaumont ARCA, LRIBA, FRSA, FIBD', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1263392242, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
